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Notable: U.S. Federal Reserve markets czar stepping down

@Reuters

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1133492136022892544

U.S. Federal Reserve markets czar stepping down

2:55 PM - 28 May 2019

Notable: Oklahoma accuses J&J of 'brainwashing campaign' in sale of opioids

Oklahoma accuses J&J of 'brainwashing campaign' in sale of opioids

May 28 (UPI) – Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said the opioid crisis is "devastating" his state Tuesday during opening remarks in a historic trial between the state and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, which he accused of facilitating the crisis and thousands of deaths. He accused the pharmaceutical company of a "multibillion dollar brainwashing campaign" in its effort to market and push sales of the drugs. "The pain, anguish and heartbreak … is almost impossible to comprehend. How did this happen? At the end of the day, your honor, I have a short, one-word answer – greed," Hunter said.

Hunter seeks to hold Johnson & Johnson accountable for overdoses of its narcotic painkillers. Other pharmaceutical companies were attached to the lawsuit, but Hunter dropped charges against most. Purdue Pharma settled for $270 million and Teva for $85 million to avoid trial, leaving Johnson & Johnson as the lone defendant. "We have looked at literally millions of documents, taken hundreds of depositions, and we are even more convinced that these companies are the proximate cause for the epidemic in our state and in our country," Hunter said. Some 4,653 people died from opioid-related causes in Oklahoma between 2007 and 2017, Hunter said during opening remarks. "Manufactures have in a consistent and … coldblooded fashion marketed these drugs in a way that has misrepresented their tendency to be addictive and the extent to which they can be deadly," the lawsuit said.

Defense lawyer Larry Ottaway said that in 2009, the Food and Drug Administration backed Johnson & Johnson's assertions that opioids are rarely addictive.

The state accuses the company of exaggerating the benefits of opioids, and using deceptive marketing that encouraged physicians to prescribe narcotic painkillers for ailments not approved by regulators. The precedent-setting Oklahoma bench trial is the first of its kind against an opioid manufacturer. Hundreds more nationwide are pending. A North Dakota judge dismissed all of that state's claims against Purdue, ruling that the company shouldn't be blamed for drug abuse when the product is legal. "Purdue cannot control how doctors prescribe its products and it certainly cannot control how individual patients use and respond to its products regardless of any warning or instruction Purdue might give," judge James Hill wrote in his ruling.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2019/05/28/Oklahoma-accuses-JJ-of-brainwashing-campaign-in-sale-of-opioids/8761559041589/

Notable: >>6612106 SecDef Names New Convening Authority for Military Commissions

SecDef Names New Convening Authority for Military Commissions

05/28/2019 03:09 PM EDT

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. NR-131-19

May 28, 2019

SecDef Names New Convening Authority

The Department of Defense announced the selection of Christian L. Reismeier to serve as the Convening Authority for Military Commissions and Director of the Office of the Convening Authority for Military Commissions.

Mr. Reismeier is a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral. During his last active-duty tour, he simultaneously served as Assistant Judge Advocate General of the Navy and Chief Judge, Department of the Navy. Throughout his career, he provided legal and policy advice to a variety of federal agencies, including the White House, Department of State, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations, and the Judge Advocate General of the Navy, with specific concentration on the topic of military criminal justice.

https://dod.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/1858937/secdef-names-new-convening-authority/

Notable: Pres Manhattan Young Demspleads guilty to child porn charge

https://nypost.com/2019/05/28/former-de-blasio-staffer-pleads-guilty-to-child-porn-possession/

Jacob Schwartz pleads guilty to child porn charge

–president of the Manhattan Young Democrats–

A former de Blasio administration employee is expected to spend up to three years behind bars after pleading guilty Tuesday to possessing kiddie porn.

Jacob Schwartz, 31, copped to the top count against him, promoting a sexual performance by a child, in exchange for one to three years in prison.

Manhattan prosecutors argued that Schwartz should be held without bail pending sentencing July 2, but Justice Steven Statsinger released him on $7,500 cash bail.

For months, Schwartz’s lawyers had been pushing for a no-jail sentence, but prosecutors wouldn’t budge on their recommendation of prison time.

Notable: Nearly 30 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland Is Now Owned By Foreigners

American Soil Is Being Globalized: Nearly 30 Million Acres Of U.S. Farmland Is Now Owned By Foreigners

All across America, U.S. farmland is being gobbled up by foreign interests. So when we refer to “the heartland of America”, the truth is that vast stretches of that “heartland” is now owned by foreigners, and most Americans have no idea that this is happening. These days, a lot of people are warning about the “globalization” of the world economy, but in reality our own soil is rapidly being “globalized”. When farms are locally owned, the revenue that those farms take in tends to stay in local communities. But with foreign-owned farms there is no guarantee that will happen. And while there is plenty of food to go around this is not a major concern, but what happens when a food crisis erupts and these foreign-owned farms just keep sending their produce out of the country? There are some very serious national security concerns here, and they really aren’t being addressed. Instead, the amount of farmland owned by foreigners just continues to increase with each passing year.

Prior to seeing the headline to this article, how much U.S. farmland would you have guessed that foreigners now own?

Personally, I had no idea that foreigners now own nearly 30 million acres. The following comes from NPR…

American soil.

Those are two words that are commonly used to stir up patriotic feelings. They are also words that can’t be be taken for granted, because today nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland are held by foreign investors. That number has doubled in the past two decades, which is raising alarm bells in farming communities.

How did we allow this to happen?

And actually laws regarding land ownership vary greatly from state to state. Some states have placed strict restrictions on foreign land ownership, while in other states it is “a free-for-all”…

“Texas is kind of a free-for-all, so they don’t have a limit on how much land can be owned,” say’s Ohio Farm Bureau’s Ty Higgins, “You look at Iowa and they restrict it — no land in Iowa is owned by a foreign entity.”

Ohio, like Texas, also has no restrictions, and nearly half a million acres of prime farmland are held by foreign-owned entities. In the northwestern corner of the state, below Toledo, companies from the Netherlands alone have purchased 64,000 acres for wind farms.

But even in states where there are restrictions, foreign entities can get around that by simply buying large corporations that own land.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/american-soil-is-being-globalized-nearly-30-million-acres-of-u-s-farmland-is-now-owned-by-foreigners

Notable: U.S. Border Patrol creating “Border Patrol Processing Coordinator”

Border Patrol Creating A New Position To Stymie The Immigration Crisis

The U.S. Border Patrol announced that it’s creating a new position specifically tailored to processing and caring for migrants who reach the southern border, allowing agents to refocus their work on enforcement. The “Border Patrol Processing Coordinator” will assume certain responsibilities that have consumed the agency’s time as it deals with a surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) press release on Tuesday. The new position is meant to bring relief to agents who have long complained that the humanitarian crisis has kept them from performing their main role at the border. Coordinators are to be tasked with feeding, cleaning, transporting and other general tasks for illegal immigrants in Border Patrol custody. Migrants in need of medical care will be transported to hospitals by coordinators, who will also be assigned to watch over migrants as they receive care.

“I am committed to providing the men and women of the U.S. Border Patrol the resources they need to accomplish their border security mission,” Carla Provost, Chief of the Border Patrol, said in a prepared statement on Tuesday. “Border Patrol Processing Coordinators will take on processing, transportation, and custody responsibilities, which will free up agents for critical law enforcement operations.” It’s not clear how many Border Patrol Processing coordinators the agency plans to bring on, but CBP indicated it is currently developing the position and plans to begin hiring by early fiscal year 2020.

The announcement comes as Border Patrol agents are becoming inundated with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants every month — many of them family units and unaccompanied children that require special care. The result of the crisis has forced 40% of agents at the Southwest border to focus on the menial tasks that come with caring for migrants — taking them away from their law enforcement role. The crisis has not only forced migrant detention centers to release thousands of families into the interior of the U.S., but has also meant a lack of narcotics enforcement. Officials within the Department of Homeland Security are warning that drug cartels in Mexico are taking advantage of the immigration emergency that’s consuming agents’ time. “Right now, we are babysitting,” an agent stated in January, decrying the nursing role they’ve been forced to take on. “We’re supposed to pay attention to medical conditions that we’re not trained for. We are not machines. We’re emotionally stressed.”

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/28/border-patrol-new-job/

Notable: >>6611772 Reminder: DiGenova/Toensing repping CGI Whistleblower Douglas Campbell

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DiGenova and wife/law partner Victoria Toensing are representing whistleblower Douglas Campbell.

Notable: Amash Attacks AG Barr: ‘Used His Position’ to Push Trump’s ‘False Narrative

Justin Amash Attacks AG Barr: ‘Used His Position’ to Push Trump’s ‘False Narrative

Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) on Tuesday once again attacked Attorney General William Barr’s handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on now-debunked collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia, claiming that the nation’s chief legal officer “deliberately misrepresented” its contents.

Amash rocketed into Resistance folk-hero status earlier this month after becoming the first congressional Republican to accuse President Trump of “impeachable” offenses based on Mueller’s report on social media. In the same Twitter thread, the libertarian-leaning lawmaker also accused Barr of misrepresenting the special counsel’s findings. Mueller found no evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia during the election, and further, Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined that the president did not obstruct justice based on the report. Amash aimed his critique directly at Barr shortly after noon Tuesday, one day after Memorial Day.

“Attorney General Barr has deliberately misrepresented key aspects of Mueller’s report and decisions in the investigation, which has helped further the president’s false narrative about the investigation,” Amash wrote on social media, then accused Barr of crafting a letter which “selectively quotes and summarizes points in Mueller’s report in misleading ways.” Amash later pointed out that Mueller sent a letter to Barr, stating that the attorney general’s summary of his findings “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of his report. “There is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations,” Amash tweeted, citing Mueller’s letter sent March 27 to Barr.

The Michigan congressman then expanded on the purported “false narrative” that President Trump has attempted to disseminate regarding the Mueller report, claiming that Barr played a role in the findings’ misrepresentations. “Barr has so far successfully used his position to sell the president’s false narrative to the American people. This will continue if those who have read the report do not start pushing back on his misrepresentations and share the truth,” he concluded.

Tuesday’s tweetstorm comes as Amash continues to face fierce blowback from top Republicans over his remarks. Michigan State Rep. Jim Lower (R) recently announced that he will mount a primary challenge to the congressman, saying his remarks on impeachment “show how out of touch he is with the truth and how out of touch he is with people he represents.” President Trump responded to Amash’s statements, calling him a “loser” and a “total lightweight” in search of media attention.

The House Freedom Caucus has also voted to condemn Amash, one of the group’s founding members, for his statements. “It was every single person who totally disagrees with what he says,” House Oversight Committee ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH) said of the vote. “What concerns me is Justin was viewed as a leader, right, on protecting privacy rights first to First Amendment rights.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/28/justin-amash-attacks-ag-barr-used-his-position-to-push-trumps-false-narrative/

Notable: PA Youth Football Coach state sentence for sexually assaulting underage girls

"A former Bucks County youth football coach has been sentenced to state prison for sexually assaulting underage girls.

Shannon "Shawn" Westmoreland, 49, of West Chester, pleaded guilty Monday to rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and statutory sexual assault. He was sentenced to serve 14 to 28 years behind bars followed by 15 years of probation.

nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Bucks-County-Youth-Football-Coach-Guilty-Sentenced-Sexual-Assault-Underage-Girls–510523751.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_PHBrand

Notable: Treasury Declines to Label China Currency Manipulator

Treasury Declines to Label China Currency Manipulator

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Tuesday declined to label China as a currency manipulator despite President Trump’s repeated complaint that Beijing has weakened the renminbi as a way to take advantage of the United States on trade.

The decision not to formally accuse China of manipulating its currency could avoid further escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing, which have grown heated following a breakdown in trade negotiations earlier this month.

China continues to be on Treasury’s watchlist along with the “currency practices” of Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. And the report continued to raise concerns about China’s activity in managing its currency.

Treasury said that it has “significant concerns” about China’s currency practices and criticized the Chinese government for lacking transparency in how it manages foreign exchange. It noted that the renminbi has fallen by 8 percent in the last year and that China’s bilateral trade surplus in goods with the United States grew to $419 billion as of the end of 2018.

“The outsized magnitude of the bilateral deficit is a result of China’s persistent and widespread use of non-tariff barriers, nonmarket mechanisms, state subsidies, and other discriminatory measures that are increasingly distorting China’s trading and investment relationships,” the report said. “These practices tend to limit Chinese demand and market access for imported goods and services, leading to a wider trade surplus.”

The report comes as the United States and China are locked in a protracted trade war following a breakdown in trade negotiations earlier this month. The United States raised tariff rates on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports and is considering imposing tariffs on another $300 billion. China has vowed to hit back with tariffs or other punitive measures of its own.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/us/politics/treasury-declines-to-label-china-currency-manipulator.html

Notable: Judge Orders Antifa Activist Yvette Felarca to Pay Judicial Watch Legal Fees

Judge Orders Antifa Activist Yvette Felarca to Pay Judicial Watch Legal Fees for Her ‘Entirely Frivolous’ Lawsuit

MAY 21, 2019

(Washington, DC) — Judicial Watch announced that a U.S. District Judge in California awarded Judicial Watch $22,000 in legal fees in a case filed by an Antifa organizer in an effort to block Judicial Watch from obtaining information about her activities.

Yvette Felarca, a middle school teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), and two co-plaintiffs were ordered to pay Judicial Watch $22,000 in attorney’s fees and $4,000 in litigation costs. Felarca had sued the BUSD in federal court to keep the school district from fulfilling its legal obligation to provide Judicial Watch with records of their communications mentioning: Felarca, Antifa, and/or BAMN. Judicial Watch also asked for Felarca’s personnel file.

Felarca is a prominent figure in By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), a group founded by the Marxist Revolutionary Workers League that protests conservative speaking engagements. In 2016, Felarca and two of her allies were arrested and charged with several crimes, including felony assault, for inciting a riot in Sacramento. Earlier this year, Felarca was ordered to stand trial for assault.

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, Northern District of California, who had previously ruled that Felarca’s lawsuit was “entirely frivolous,” wrote in his ruling awarding legal fees to Judicial Watch that Felarca and her co-plaintiffs’ First Amendment claims were “premised on the obviously baseless assumption” that the First Amendment condemns the speech of some while condoning the ideological missions of others.

Judge Chhabria added that “The plaintiffs also mischaracterized the documents under review” and that the plaintiffs “failed to grapple with the role Ms. Felarca played in making herself a topic of public discourse through her physical conduct at public rallies and her voluntary appearance on Fox News.”

Judge Chhabria’s order also states that “a significant portion of the documents the plaintiffs initially sued to protect from disclosure had been publicly disclosed months earlier in another suit brought by Ms. Felarca against BUSD, where she was represented by the same counsel. (See generally Felarca v. Berkeley Unified School District, No. 3:16-cv-06184-RS). The plaintiffs, therefore, had no reasonable argument to protect those documents from disclosure.”

Along with Felarca’s $20,000 payment, co-plaintiffs Lori Nixon and Larry Stefl were ordered by Judge Chhabria to pay Judicial Watch $1,000 each (Yvette Felarca, et al., v. Berekely Unified School District, et al. (No. 3:17-cv-06282-VC)).

“Judicial Watch is entitled to attorney’s fees because the plaintiffs’ lawsuit was frivolous, and their litigation conduct was unreasonable,” Judge Chhabria wrote in his order.

Additionally, Judge Chhabria’s order holds the plaintiffs “jointly and severally liable” to pay Judicial Watch $4,000 in litigation expenses.

In 2017, Judicial Watch filed a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request seeking public records information about Felarca’s Antifa activism and its effect within the Berkeley Unified School District. In her lawsuit aimed at keeping the Berkeley school district from furnishing the records, Felarca alleged that Judicial Watch was misusing the law for political means and the district should refuse to provide the information.

In January 2018, a separate judge ordered Felarca to pay more than $11,000 in attorney and court fees for her frivolous attempt to get a restraining order against Troy Worden, the former head of the University of California (UC) Berkeley College Republicans.

“This is a huge victory for Judicial Watch against Antifa and the violent left,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “Ms. Felarca attacked Judicial Watch without basis and the court was right to reject her ploy to deny our ‘right to know’ because we don’t share her violent left views.”

Sauce: www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judge-orders-antifa-activist-yvette-felarca-to-pay-judicial-watch-legal-fees-for-her-entirely-frivolous-lawsuit/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tipsheet&utm_term=members&utm_content=20190528222454

Notable: New Request to Make Public List of Matters Related to Special Counsel

New filing in In re Request to Make Public List of Matters Related to Special Counsel Investigation: Notice (Other)

CST

https://twitter.com/big_cases/status/1133465922574983168

https://www.usatoday.com/documents/6044530-Notice-Other/

Notable: Comey Dementia Twat: No ‘treason.’ No coup. Just lies — and dumb lies at that

James Comey: No ‘treason.’ No coup. Just lies — and dumb lies at that.

twitter.com/Comey/status/1133485937210613761

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Notable: Donald Trump Jr. torches Eric Swalwell over "I may be 'another white guy'" tweet

Donald Trump Jr. torches Eric Swalwell over "I may be 'another white guy'" tweet

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/445721-swalwell-i-may-be-another-white-guy-but-i-know-when-to-pass-the-mic?__twitter_impression=true

Notable: Top U.S. Environmental Enforcement Officials Meet With Officials in China

Top U.S. Environmental Enforcement Officials Meet With Officials in China

U.S. and Chinese Officials met in China to Discuss Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/top-us-environmental-enforcement-officials-meet-officials-china

Notable: AG Barr Battles Intel Community And FBI. Illegal Surveillance Had Been Going On For Years (Sara Carter)

AG Barr Battles Intel Community And FBI. Illegal Surveillance Had Been Going On For Years.

By Sara Carter -May 28, 2019

President Donald Trump’s orders to declassify secret documents pertaining to the FBI’s investigation into his campaign in 2016, came after weeks of battles between Attorney General William Barr and senior officials within the bureau, CIA and other agencies, sources with knowledge told SaraACarter.com.

Despite the president’s order giving Barr authority over the declassification of the documents related to the bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia, it won’t be met without a fight. And there’s a reason why.

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“The FISC has already found that there’s been spying going on starting in 2012, not in 2016,” he said, adding that senior officials within the FBI and CIA “fear” that a full scale disclosure of the violations will then limit their expansive powers.

Durham is extremely familiar with the CIA and has an extensive career investigating the intelligence community.

As for U.S. Attorney John Huber, he is no longer working on the FBI’s probe into the Trump campaign. He will be focused on other matters.

“How much surveillance came directly from the NSA? How much of it was misused under the terrorism statute,” said another former senior intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Because under 215 and 702 you can do things you can’t do under a normal criminal investigation. These are the areas Barr needs to be looking at and this is exactly what they need to be questioning about.”

https://saraacarter.com/ag-barr-battles-intel-community-and-fbi-illegal-surveillance-had-been-going-on-for-years/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug

Notable: New DJT: "I was actually sticking up for Sleepy Joe" (kek)

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Notable: Troops Wearing ‘Make Aircrew Great Again’ Patch Triggers Outrage from Left

Troops Wearing ‘Make Aircrew Great Again’ Patch Triggers Outrage from Left

Mass outrage on the left ensued after photos emerged of United States sailors aboard the USS Wasp wearing “Make Aircrew Great Again” patches with President Trump’s likeness on them. The images were first reported by White House reporters traveling with the president on his trip to Japan, where he stopped at a U.S. military base in Yokosuka. After the photos surfaced online, leftist commentators and pundits began calling for the airmen to be punished, claiming they had violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) for engaging in political activity while in uniform.

One man who calls himself a “liberal provocateur” tried to alert their commander. He had also called them wearing the patch “fascism,” and asked if they had “armbands, too”. Another leftist dug up photos to confirm whether the patches were actually real, and found they have been worn since at least September 2017. One professor worried that the military was not loyal to civilian control and the Constitution, and was now “part of a presidential personality cult”.

Leftists were similarly outraged when Trump visited a U.S. base in Iraq last year for Christmas. Several troops had “Make America Great Again” hats, which drew claims they had violated UMCJ again. Some speculated that Trump’s staff had brought the hats with them and distributed them. The U.S. Air Force later said the airmen were not in violation of the UCMJ. “There is no rule against Airmen bringing personal items to be signed by the president,” U.S. Air Forces Europe said in a statement. There have been other shows of support for Trump from the military that have not garnered as much attention. In January, Trump was greeted by a standing ovation at the Pentagon, and an attendee waving a MAGA hat. One source said the attendee was a female in a military uniform.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/28/troops-wearing-make-aircrew-great-again-patches-triggers-outrage-left/

Notable: Deep State Blame Game: Loretta Lynch Contradicts Comey’s Testimony on Clinton Email Investigation

Deep State Blame Game: Loretta Lynch Contradicts Comey’s Testimony on Clinton Email Investigation

NEW YORK — Conflicting testimony and narratives between disgraced former FBI director James B. Comey and former attorney general Loretta E. Lynch raise serious questions not only about who is telling the truth but also about Comey potentially mischaracterizing or even fictionalizing key claims he made about President Trump and the Russia collusion story. Last week, Lynch’s closed-door December 2018 testimony to the House Judiciary Committee was made public by Rep. Douglas A. Collins (R-Ga). At the hearing, Lynch disputed Comey’s claim that she directed him to downplay the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server by referring to what ultimately became a criminal probe as instead “a matter” during any public comments on the issue.

“I didn’t direct anyone to use specific phraseology,” Lynch stated. “When the Director asked me how to best to handle that, I said: What I have been saying is we have received a referral and we are working on the matter, working on the issue, or we have all the resources we need to handle the matter, handle the issue. So that was the suggestion that I made to him.” Lynch maintained that she was “quite surprised that he characterized it in that way,” referring to Comey’s claim that Lynch directed him to call the investigation “a matter.” Her denial of directing Comey to call it a matter precludes the possibility of any misunderstanding on Comey’s part. In June 2017 testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, Comey specifically described Lynch as directing him to call the Clinton probe “a matter.”

“The attorney general had directed me not to call it ‘an investigation,’ but instead to call it ‘a matter,’ which confused me and concerned me,” Comey stated. “That was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude, ‘I have to step away from the department if we’re to close this case credibly.’” In his book, “A Higher Loyalty,” Comey goes even further, detailing a conversation he claimed that he had with Lynch in which he says that she instructed him to call the investigation “a matter” – phraseology Comey viewed as aligned with Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Comey wrote in the book: I explained that I thought we had reached a point where at my regular quarterly press roundtable, set for October 1, I should confirm we had a Clinton email investigation open, which the whole world knew anyway, but then offer no further details. Attorney General Lynch agreed that it made sense to do that. But then she quickly added, “Call it ‘a matter.’” “Why would I do that?” I asked. “Just call it ‘a matter,’” came her answer. It occurred to me in the moment that this issue of semantics was strikingly similar to the fight the Clinton campaign had waged against The New York Times in July. Ever since then, the Clinton team had been employing a variety of euphemisms to avoid using the word “investigation.” The attorney general seemed to be directing me to align with that Clinton campaign strategy. Her “just do it” response to my question indicated that she had no legal or procedural justification for her request, at least not one grounded in our practices or traditions. Otherwise, I assume, she would have said so.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/28/deep-state-blame-game-loretta-lynch-contradicts-comeys-testimony-on-clinton-email-investigation/

Notable: Jim Carrey concern-fags over the future of the Free World if Mueller does not testify

Actor Jim Carrey unleashed another politically charged drawing on Tuesday, this time demanding that Robert Mueller testify in public about President Donald Trump and insisting that the “fate of the free world is at stake” if he does not appear.

“We understand your desire to testify in private Mr. Mueller, but people don’t believe the news anymore because of someone you should have recommended for indictment,” Jim Carrey captioned his message, depicting Mueller as a prune-faced old man. Carrey decried Mueller’s desire to testify only in a closed session, one not open to public scrutiny.

“In person, you could MAKE THEM BELIEVE,” Jim Carrey continued. “No pressure, though… It’s just the future of the free world at stake.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/05/28/jim-carrey-the-future-of-the-free-world-at-stake-if-mueller-does-not-testify-before-congress/

Notable: The End of Women’s Sports: Biological Male Wins NCAA Women’s Track Championship

The End of Women’s Sports: Biological Male Wins NCAA Women’s Track Championship

A biological male who identifies as a woman won the NCAA women’s track championship over the weekend.

Cece Telfer. a biological male (transgender), won the women’s 400 meter hurdles on Saturday night and beat the second place competitor by over a full second.

The coach praised Cece Telfer for being the first student-athlete in Franklin Pierce history to collect an individual national title.

“It was tough conditions out here with the wind and the heat over the last three days but, as she has over the last six months, CeCe proved herself to be tough enough to handle it,” head coach Zach Emerson said.

“Today was a microcosm of her entire season; she was not going to let anything slow her down. I’ve never met anybody as strong as her mentally in my entire life,” Emerson said.

The NCAA boasts of its “inclusion of transgender student-athletes” because they believe in and are committed to “diversity, inclusion and gender equity among its student-athletes, coaches and administrators. We seek to establish and maintain an inclusive culture that fosters equitable participation for student-athletes and career opportunities for coaches and administrators from diverse backgrounds.”

The left is completely destroying women’s sports.

Recall, “Rachel” McKinnon is a man who won the women’s cycling world championship in October of last year — all he had to do was show up and say he was a woman named Rachel and next thing you know he’s the world champion.

Two biological males have also crushed female competitors in high school track in Connecticut, ultimately destroying scholarship opportunities for young girls.

Meanwhile the feminists are silent on this issue.

http://www.hideoutnow.com/2019/05/the-end-of-womens-sports-biological.html

Notable: Former Scientist at Top US Lab Charged with Lying About Links to Chinese Program

Former Scientist at Top US Lab Charged with Lying About Links to Chinese Program

A former scientist for a U.S. national laboratory has been charged with lying about his contacts with a recruitment program designed to attract foreign experts to work in China. The program has recently come under increased scrutiny in Washington over its role in enabling technology transfer to China from the United States.

Turab Lookman, 67, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, who worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), was asked in an employment questionnaire and by federal officials whether he had been recruited by the Chinese regime’s Thousand Talents program, or if he had applied for it, federal prosecutors said in a statement, the Associated Press reported. In an indictment filed last week, prosecutors alleged that between November 2017 and September 2018, Lookman denied his involvement with the program when he in fact applied for it, charging him with three counts of making false statements. Lookman was invited to participate in the Thousand Talents program, then applied for and was accepted into the program, the indictment said. He also received compensation after being accepted.

Prosecutors said the program was “established by the Chinese government to recruit people with access to and knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property.” The scientist was arrested on May 23 and is due to appear in court for a bail hearing on May 28. He faces up to five years in prison if convicted, prosecutors said.

Lookman joined LANL in 1999 and worked there until recently, the Albuquerque Journal reported. It is unclear whether he resigned or was fired. In 2017, he was named Laboratory Fellow, one of the lab’s highest recognitions for it staff, according to a LANL press release at the time. Lookman, who is also a fellow of the American Physical Society, worked in LANL’s Theoretical Division as an expert in the computational physics of materials, complex fluids, and nonlinear dynamics. His work in the field, which includes two books and more than 250 publications, also received “enormous worldwide attention,” according to the press release. LANL, located in northern New Mexico, is a national laboratory run by the U.S. Department of Energy—best known as the birthplace of the atomic bomb, which was developed at the site decades ago as part of the Manhattan Project. The laboratory is now tasked with engaging in science projects relating to national security, including ensuring the safety of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technology to counter threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems relating to energy, infrastructure, health, and global security.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-scientist-at-top-us-lab-charged-with-lying-about-links-to-chinese-program_2940848.html

Notable: New DJT: Feds will help with record flooding in Arkansas

New DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1133484222423941120

Notable: Followup on Letter Q Anon's artwork controversy

>>6610908

I wonder how many of my memes and artwork have been stolen by paytriots?

Ive made hundreds of memes, pepes, etc

Glad to see that Letter Q anon got his artwork stolen by inthematrixx removed by teeshirt site.

https://twitter.com/LetterQAnon/status/1133446207160741888

Notable: Q Clock update, plz re-read crumbs

Q CLOCK UPDATE - RE-READ CRUMBS

Today's Q Clock :57

You are now mainstream.

Handle w/ care.

Why isn't FOX NEWS part of the MSM coordinated blitz attack?

A picture is worth many sentences.

Has POTUS ever made a statement that hasn't been proven to be correct (future)?

Think SC lock.

Locked & (who is) Loaded.

Today's :25/:55 Q Clock Mirror :53

EXTREME PANIC IN [DC]

Will the release occur post scheduled testimony?

If those testifying 'know' select CLAS docs will become public [self-incrimination] how might that alter/change their testimony?

Executive Order 13526

Will immediate action(s) be 'publicly' taken within each country to REUNIFY THE BOND that was once held PRIOR TO…….[CLAS 9]?

[Koala]

Be careful who you follow.

Today's 180-Degree Q Clock Mirror :27

[Roasted]

LIKE CLOCKWORK.

FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

BIG

BIG

BIG

BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG

THIS IS ABOUT SAVING AMERICA. WRWY N1LB FG&C WWG1WGA!

Notable: Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt

"The Most Destructive Breach In History": Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt

The United States is no longer supplying its enemies only with conventional weapons – that list now also includes cyberweapons. While Baltimore has been struggling with an aggressive cyber-attack over the last three weeks, previously profiled here , it has now been revealed that a key component of the malware used by cyber-criminals was actually developed just a short drive from Baltimore - at the NSA, according to the New York Times.

The tool used - called EternalBlue – has been used by hackers in North Korea, Russia and China to "cut a path of destruction around the world", and resulted in billions of dollars in damages.

Now, it has come full circle and is back in the US, wreaking havoc just miles from Washington. In fact, security experts say that attacks using EternalBlue have soared and cyber-criminals are honing in on vulnerable towns and cities, using it to paralyze governments. The NSA's connection to the attacks had previously not been reported and the NSA hasn’t commented about it since an unidentified group leaked the weapon online in April 2017.

The NSA and the FBI still don’t know whether or not it was leaked by foreign spies or US insiders.

The leak has been referred to as “the most destructive and costly N.S.A. breach in history,” by Thomas Rid, a cybersecurity expert at Johns Hopkins University. He continued: “The government has refused to take responsibility, or even to answer the most basic questions. Congressional oversight appears to be failing. The American people deserve an answer.”

An answer that we're sure they won't get.

Commenting on the leak in April 2017, Edward Snowden said that the "NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons; hackers leaked it."

Since the April 2017 leak, foreign intelligence agencies and hackers have used the software to paralyze places like hospitals, airports, rail and shipping operators, ATMs and factories. In the United States, hackers are using the software to hit local governments with outdated infrastructure and few resources to defend themselves.

The software used to be one of the most useful exploits in the NSA's arsenal. Former NSA analysts spent almost a year finding a flaw in Microsoft's software and writing the code to target it. The tool was initially called "EternalBlueScreen" because it had a penchant for crashing computers. In fact, it was so valuable that the agency never even alerted Microsoft to the security flaw and instead, held onto the tool for five years before the breach in 2017 forced them to talk about it.

The May 7 Baltimore attack saw city workers' screens suddenly lock up and a message in broken English demanding $100,000 in Bitcoin ransom. And, as Baltimore has not yet paid the ransom, the city's computers remain handicapped. Without the former NSA tool, the damage wouldn’t of been as bad.

North Korea was the first to allegedly use the tool in 2017 when they attacked the British healthcare system, German railroads and 200,000 additional organizations around the world. Then, Russia reportedly used the tool on Ukraine and companies that did business in the country. The assault cost FedEx more than $400 million and Merck $670 million. Over the past year, Russian hackers have also used it to compromise hotel Wi-Fi networks, while Iranian hackers have used it to hack airlines in the Middle East. Of course, there is no evidence that any of these actors were behind the reported hacks.

Vikram Thakur, Symantec’s director of security response said: “It’s incredible that a tool which was used by intelligence services is now publicly available and so widely used.”

When the tool was leaked in 2017, the NSA finally reached out to Microsoft, who developed a patch - but by then, it was too late and many systems still remained unprotected.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-27/most-destructive-breach-history-hackers-use-nsa-code-grind-baltimore-halt

Notable: Q Proof: Is Alison Mack naming names? See Q# 1203

TICK TOCK

Notable: Planefag report

>>6610405 PB

LOOKY HERE

N996GA IN PARIS FRANCE

HMMMMMMMM

Notable: Mueller: Obstruction indictment against Trump mentioned in Michael Wolff book does not exist (Wash. Examiner)

Mueller: Obstruction indictment against Trump mentioned in Michael Wolff book does not exist

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office pushed back against author Michael Wolff’s claim that prosecutors drafted a three-count obstruction of justice indictment against President Trump. “The documents that you’ve described do not exist,” Mueller spokesman Peter Carr said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.

In his forthcoming book “Siege: Trump Under Fire,” Wolff wrote that a draft indictment charged Trump with obstructing an investigation, tampering with a witness, and retaliating against a witness. He said his reporting was “based on internal documents given to me by sources close to the Office of the Special Counsel.” The Guardian, which obtained an advance copy of the book, said it had seen the documents. Wolff’s last book on Trump, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, was released in 2018 and heavily scrutinized for its flippancy with facts.

Mueller was appointed in May 2017 to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election. Nearly two years later, he submitted a 448-page report detailing the investigation’s findings to the Justice Department. A redacted version of the report laid out 10 instances in which Trump might have obstructed justice, but Mueller declined to say whether he committed obstruction, citing a Justice Department guideline that sitting presidents cannot be indicted. "Because we determined not to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment, we did not draw ultimate conclusions about the President's conduct," Mueller's report said.

Attorney General William Barr concluded Mueller’s investigation did not find “sufficient” evidence to determine whether Trump obstructed justice. Barr defended the president’s behavior during the investigation as Trump being “frustrated and angry” with a process he believed was politically motivated.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mueller-obstruction-indictment-against-trump-mentioned-in-michael-wolff-book-does-not-exist

Notable: South African Mom Who Spoke Out Against Slaughter Of White Farmers Found Stabbed, Beaten to Death With Hammer

South African Mom Who Spoke Out Against Slaughter Of White Farmers Found Stabbed, Beaten to Death With Hammer

South African activist and mom, Annette Kennealy, spoke out against the massacre of white farmers in South Africa on social media for years.

Kennealy had accounts on Facebook and Gab where she spoke out against attacks on farmers, anti-white racism and social media censorship.

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=60268

Notable: Moar on Bilderberger mtg

Secretive Bilderberg meeting to address Russia, cyber threats and Brexit as 130 of world's elite including Henry Kissinger, Mark Carney and the Dutch King prepare for Swiss summit

More than a hundred dignitaries from 23 countries will attend at Montreux

Bankers, Prime Ministers and CEOs will discuss topics under strict secrecy

Talking points include Russia, Brexit and the weaponisation of social media

The meeting of the rich and powerful attracts protest and conspiracy theories

More than a hundred of the world's elite including Henry Kissinger, Mark Carney and the Dutch King will meet at the secretive Bilderberg summit this week.

Bankers, Prime Ministers, CEOs and defence experts will meet in Montreux, Switzerland, to discuss a wide range of topics including Russia, cyber threats and Brexit.

From Thursday to Sunday 130 influential men and women from 23 countries will meet under strict secrecy rules and the precise location of their venue has not been revealed.

Notable attendees include former US Secretary of State Kissinger, Governor of the Bank of England Carney, former CIA director David Petraeus and White House Adviser Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law.

What will the Bilderberg Group discuss?

The key topics for discussion this year are:

1. A Stable Strategic Order

2. What Next for Europe?

3. Climate Change and Sustainability

4. China

5. Russia

6. The Future of Capitalism

7. Brexit

8. The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

9. The Weaponisation of Social Media

10. The Importance of Space

11. Cyber Threats

The Bilderberg Group claim that their summits take place without agenda and discussions of topics are informal.

The secretive group claim that no policies are made, no votes are taken and no statements are issued.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7077787/Secretive-Bilderberg-meeting-address-Russia-cyber-threats-Brexit-130-worlds-elite.html

Notable: The Rockefeller Way: The Family’s Covert ‘Climate Change’ Plan

The Rockefeller Way: The Family’s Covert ‘Climate Change’ Plan

Executive Summary

“Beginning in the 1980s, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund became leading advocates of the global warming agenda. … In their Sustainable Development Program Review, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund boasts of being one of the first major global warming activists, citing its strong advocacy for both the 1988 formation of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the 1992 establishment of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.” (excerpt from Report)

The following text is the Executive Summary of a full length report by The Energy & Environmental Legal Institute published in 2016.

This informative report is brought to the attention of Global Research readers. The CRG does not necessarily endorse the title nor the contents of this report.

What is important, however, is to acknowledge the role of the Rockefeller family –which historically was the architect of “Big Oil”– in supporting the Climate Change debate as well as financing the NGOs involved in grassroots activism against “Big Oil”.

Debate on the world’s climate is of crucial importance.

But there is a contradictory relationship: Whereas “Big Oil” is the target of Global Warming activism, “Big Oil” through the Rockefeller Family and Rockefeller Brothers Trusts generously finance the Worldwide climate protest movement. Ask yourself Why?

Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, May 2019

The Rockefellers are arguably the wealthiest and most powerful family in the history of the United States. For more than 100 years, they have shaped and directed America’s economic, financial, political, and public policy while simultaneously amassing one of the largest family empires in the modern era.

Most Americans hold the billionaire philanthropists in high esteem, associating the Rockefeller name with “oil” and “capitalism.” In reality, the Rockefellers are intent on controlling nearly every major institution in America, using philanthropy as a means of increasing their influence on the world stage under the guise of advancing various social causes. Their avid opposition to the very fossil fuel industry that made John D. Rockefeller America’s first billionaire shows that the Rockefellers are not political ideologues. Instead, they are mere opportunists who support political agendas convenient to enhancing their leverage in the global arena.

Through the Rockefellers’ web of family foundations, universities, and institutions, as well as huge grants to other charities, they have gained unprecedented influence in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, energy, and the environment. Their highly complex integration of hedge funds, interlocking boards positions, and non-profit organizations has steered public policy on these issues and provided them with foreknowledge of emerging markets and access to the developing worlds’ natural resources.

Since the beginning of their philanthropic endeavors, the Rockefellers have used social causes to amass influence in policy areas of their choosing. Since the 1980s, their cause of choice has been the climate change agenda (originally called global warming). Their crusade to collapse the fossil fuel industry in favor of renewable energy in well-documented, from their involvement in major global climate treaties and organizations – the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 1992 to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol – to spending hundreds of millions to advance the renewable energy industry. Through their Sustainable Development Program, the Rockefellers continue to promote their self-serving “clean energy” policies throughout both the federal government and general public.

As the most prolific benefactors of the climate activist movement, the Rockefellers’ impact on the energy industry sees no bounds, as the family’s objectives permeate throughout federal and state energy policy, as well as international social engineering globalist compacts such as Agenda 21. With the immeasurable influence that accompanies mass wealth and power, the Rockefeller empire has proven an effective puppeteer of advancing its main objective: the destruction of the fossil fuel industry to increase its clout over the energy sector.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/rockefeller-familys-covert-climate-change-plan/5678775

Full report

https://eelegal.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Rockefeller-Way-Report-Final.pdf

Notable: Eric Swalwell: I May Be ‘Another White Guy’ but ‘I Know When to Pass the Mic’

Posted late last bread=

Eric Swalwell: I May Be ‘Another White Guy’ but ‘I Know When to Pass the Mic’

Presidential candidate Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) has publicly checked his privilege, saying that, as “another white guy,” there are gaps in his understanding of racial issues and vowing to “pass the mic to people who do have that experience.”

Speaking with Vice News, Swalwell declared, “A white guy who doesn’t see other identities or understand other experiences should not be president.”

The California Democrat continued: “And where there would be gaps in my knowledge or my experience, I will pass the mic to people who do have that experience. I’ve also pledged that I would ask a woman to serve as vice president.”

On Monday, Swalwell tweeted a video clip of the exchange along with a similar sentiment he expressed during the interview. “I may be ‘another white guy,’ but I know where there are gaps in my knowledge or my experience and I know when to pass the mic,” he wrote.

Swalwell’s comments come after the longshot White House hopeful conceded to donors on Sunday that campaign fundraising is on a “downtrend.”

“We’re writing to you with an urgent request. We just looked at our finances and it seems like we’re on a downtrend for this month’s fundraising numbers,” the email reads. “So many of you have stepped up to help us reach our goal of 65,000 individual donors, but we’re not quite there. We’re working hard to get to the debate stage and beyond.”

Swalwell, who is polling at 0 percent in several national polls, was one of Congress’ loudest voices pushing the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion hoax. Appearing Sunday on the Fox News Channel, the lawmaker said he still believes President Trump colluded with the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential election.

Earlier this year, the California Democrat received blowback for appearing to suggest imprisoning firearm owners who might oppose future restrictions on guns.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/28/eric-swalwell-i-may-be-another-white-guy-but-i-know-when-to-pass-the-mic/

Notable: >>6610892 Moar on Amash

They must have something very embarrassing on Amash. He is tweeting like a guy fighting for his life.

The more he tweets, the more desperate he looks.

https://twitter.com/JohnWHuber/status/1133452679345258498

Notable: JW Uncovers FBI Knew of Hillary’s Abuses

JW Uncovers FBI Knew of Hillary’s Abuses

We have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of Justice seeking draft copies of FBI charts containing information on potential “statutory violations” committed by Hillary Clinton in the former secretary of state’s use of a non-secure, non-government email server to conduct government business.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/jw-uncovers-fbi-knew-of-hillarys-abuses/

Never heard about 'charts'. Must all say HRC screwed if this gets out, and this, and this and this too.

Notable: Qpost 256 relevant to next few days?

Pretty sure this Q post is going to be important in a couple days.

Notable: >>6590194 Scavino FB posts With some of the great team members in Tokyo, Japan…./Marine One — flying over Tokyo,

Scavino45 FB post just now

With some of the great team members in Tokyo, Japan….

www.facebook.com/DanScavino

Notable: Dig on BIDAN ISLAND/NK/CHINA CONNECTION

BIDAN ISLAND/NK/CHINA CONNECTION

>>6590067

>>6590080

Check out this article from 2006:

North Korea may designate Bidan Island in North Pyongan Province as a new special economic zone.

Japan’s Tokyo Shimbun newspaper said Tuesday that Pyongyang is planning to resettle the island's current residents to make way for the construction of a financial center that would be opened up to the outside world.

The report added that during his visit to China in January, North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had received Beijing’s advice and support on the matter.

Located near the mouth of the Abrok ( Yalu ) River that serves as the North's border with China, Bidan Island has a population of around 200-thousand.

http://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=34250

NOTABLE

Notable: Carter Page tweet " It's about to get quite grotesque"

Is "Grotesque" the new bonus word now?

“It is the nature of grotesque things that you can’t look away.” - @PeteButtigieg at @FoxNews town hall, as quoted by @maureendowd.

Just wait and see all the ugliness of the terror threats that his DNC incited, as they defrauded federal judges. It's about to get quite grotesque.

CST

https://twitter.com/carterwpage/status/1132465172298240000

Notable: USMC tweet "I Got Your Back"

I Got Your Back

twitter.com/USMC/status/1132254991966564352

Notable: DOD FB A mirror image come to life

A mirror image come to life.

The Air Force Thunderbirds perform during an air show in New Mexico.

Since 1953, the air demonstration squadron has inspired past, present and future airmen.

#KnowYourMil

www.facebook.com/DeptofDefense

Notable: Another "Concrete" tweet

More concrete

Notable: Anon on why Coates was Circumvented

Alright Anons, I was sitting here trying to spark up the old autism reactor when I think some connections started to make sense. In order to answer Q's last post #3347 "Why circumvent Coates?" we have to go back to one of the earliest posts.

In post #30 Q says: "When Trump was elected you can’t possibly imagine the steps taken prior to losing power to ensure future safety & control." We have known for a long time that plants like Manafort and Page were inserted into the campaign, but I have always suspected that in order to hedge (their) bets, the DS decided to use an oldie from their playbook by making sure the VP was one of (them) so they could 187 POTUS like the did JFK and pull a LBJ.

In post #714 Q says: “Save the best for last. [P]”. Yes, I know Q later said [P] = Payseur, however the cabal has a penchant for changing their last names to mask family ties. I would not be surprised if Pence is actually Payseur. Additionally, Q has repeatedly said never interfere with your enemy while they are in the process of destroying themselves. I know many Anons are going to say that Pence is a Republican, anti-abortion, etc, etc. but remember the cabal literally lives and dies on its use of the Hegelian dialectic to present people with binary choices that ultimately always funnel people to the outcome (they) want. What better way to reveal the con than to expose the VP as a plant and co-conspirator in Spygate? The people of America would be free from both the establishment left and the controlled opposition establishment right.

If Anons would give me the grace of just a bit more time to bring it full circle. Who else is from Indiana and a swamp creature? DAN COATES the current DNI. Though Coates has at times voted with the will of the people, like opposing the Iran Nuclear Deal, in many more cases he has voted for gun control, for the war in Iraq, was one of Bush 2’s top choices for Secretary of Defense, was super close with Merkel when he was ambassador to Germany, lobbied for the bailouts in 2008 and was one of the leading voices that Russia hacked our elections in 2016. Additionally, Dan and his wife (remember follow the wives?) both are heads of the Sagamore Institute, an Indiana “think-tank”. Funny how these “think-tanks” like Tavistock Institute and Royal Institute of International Affairs always seem to pop up when we dig into cabal players…

While DNI (confirmed 13-2 not much opposition in the swamp) Coates has ragged about Trump’s foreign policy; berating him for pulling out of Syria, mocked his allegations of being wiretapped, saber rattled against Russia, openly laughed at the President’s attempts to bring peace to the world, been lauded by CIA clowns like Brennan as a voice of sanity in the administration, and has threatened to quit in “protest”. Want to take a guess at who persuaded him to stick around? Pence. Most recently Coates has threatened Barr to not reveal state secrets while exposing Spygate.

Which brings us to some of Q’s more recent posts like #3328. Where Q says “C comes before D”. In post #3344 Q appears to confirm that C=Comey, which following the pattern would mean D=first letter of first name: [D]an. This explains why POTUS circumnavigated Coates with the declassification. And last the autistic cherry on top that started this whole thing. POTUS’s tweet at 3:29PM today where he misspelled (we know POTUS only misspells things for emphasis) Biden as Bidan = Bye Dan.

BONUS AUTISM: Nice article urging POTUS to step down and let Pence be President Newsweek. You‘re glowing and stupid.

SAUCE:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats

https://www.sagamoreinstitute.org/dan-and-marsha-coats-sagamore-co-founders

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dan-coats-lobbyist-for-fat-cats-plots-senate-return

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-dan-coats-rogue-president-1035183

https://www.newsweek.com/dan-coats-resign-trump-obama-1027338

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/mike-pence-talked-dan-coats-out-quitting-trump-administration-n985096

https://www.cbsnews.com/live/video/20190525121028-dan-coats-issues-warning-to-william-barr/

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132413516063870977

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-let-mike-pence-be-president-1405041

Notable: >>6589966 FLOTUS and Mrs. Abe enjoying being in the LIGHTS at Lantern Exhibit/Be Best projected

FLOTUS and Mrs. Abe enjoying being in the LIGHTS

https://twitter.com/StephGrisham45/status/1132455301628813312?s=19

Notable: Red Castle tweet about flooding and KEYSTONE lake

Workfagging this weekend, thx anons for working here.

Interesting red castle twat about flooding and KEYSTONE lake

https://twitter.com/USACEHQ/status/1132462057952096257?s=19

Notable: Mexican military helicopter crashes, killing six

Mexican military helicopter crashes, killing six

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican military helicopter engaged in firefighting operations crashed in central Mexico on Friday, killing five members of the Navy crew and an inspector with the national forestry commission, the Navy said on Saturday.

The MI-17 helicopter came down about 55 miles (89 km) north of the town of Jalpan de Sierra in the central state of Queretaro, where it had been working to help extinguish a forest fire, the Navy said.

Reasons for the crash were not immediately clear.

A reconnaissance team found debris from the helicopter early in the morning, after operations had to be suspended during the night due to adverse weather conditions, a Navy statement said.

Officials, including President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, held a minute’s silence for the crew on Friday after news of the crash began to circulate.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-crash/mexican-military-helicopter-crashes-killing-six-idUSKCN1SV0N4?il=0

Notable: Corrected tweet DJT

corrected tweet DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132459370816708608

North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and others, but not me. I have confidence that Chairman Kim will keep his promise to me, & also smiled when he called Swampman Joe Biden a low IQ individual, & worse. Perhaps that’s sending me a signal?

Notable: Faithless electors who didn't vote for Clinton can be fined, court rules

Notables/News

Faithless electors who didn't vote for Clinton can be fined, court rules.

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The state Supreme Court says the "faithless electors" who defied both a pledge they had made and the will of Washington voters by casting their Electoral College votes for candidates other than Hillary Clinton in 2016 can be fined $1,000, as state law stipulates.

Four of Washington's 12 Democratic presidential electors voted for someone other than Clinton in 2016, who won the popular vote in Washington. Three voted for former Secretary of State Colin Powell and one for Faith Spotted Eagle, an activist in the fight against the Keystone XL Pipeline. All had signed pledges to support Clinton if she won the state's vote.

The Seattle Times reports that state law at the time dictated a $1,000 fine for electors who defied the popular vote, but the four electors challenged the fine. A Thurston County Superior Court judge ruled in 2017 that the fines were permissible.

The state Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision Thursday, upheld that ruling.

https://wsbt.com/news/nation-world/faithless-electors-who-didnt-vote-for-clinton-can-be-fined-court-rules-05-25-2019

Notable: DJT Twat: Off to the links with Abe

NEW DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132444714047664129

Notable: Danish party presents plan for full asylum stop until 2025

Notables

Danish party presents plan for full asylum stop until 2025.

Denmark’s largest right-wing party, the Danish People’s Party (DF) has presented a plan to introduce a complete halt to asylum until 2025.

According to them, a five-year full asylum stop until 2025 will reduce the influx by 4,000 migrants annually, while saving the state’s coffers up to $300 million.

If the DF had its way, asylum seekers coming to Denmark via Germany and Sweden would be rejected and asked to apply in the countries they have just travelled through, which are perfectly safe. If they still choose to stay in Denmark, a deportation will be negotiated for payment.

“We don’t want people to seek asylum directly in Denmark in the coming years. This means that if you come to the Danish border from a peaceful country, typically Germany, then you’ll be told to seek asylum in Germany”, Danish People’s Party’s chairman Kristian Thulesen Dahl explained to Danish Radio.

According to him, the Refugee Convention doesn’t prevent Denmark from sending people to countries that are deemed safe. Therefore, Denmark will use the border controls to turn asylum seekers back and ask them to stay, say, in Germany.

“The question is, how many people will want to apply in Denmark if they know that we have a system where they will be sent back anyway”, Thulesen Dahl explained.

According to Thulesen Dahl, this plan violates neither the Schengen Agreement nor the Dublin Regulation. He ventured that the Dublin system, according to which the first country an asylum seeker enters is usually responsible for dealing with their case, has “broken down” in recent years anyway.

The Danish People’s Party estimates that an asylum stop will result in 4,000 fewer asylum seekers coming to Denmark every year, while putting an extra DKK 2 billion ($300 million) more into the state’s coffers.

Of this money, the DF propose to allocate DKK 1.5 billion ($220 million dollars) on raising the supplementary pension benefits by DKK 11,000 ($1,650), while the remainder will be used to pay off neighbouring areas to receive asylum seekers.

“We know that it will cost some money, but there is a bonus associated with it. We will save a lot of money on the asylum stop, and then we can increase Denmark’s efforts in the neighboring areas, so we help many more who are in need”, Thulesen Dahl concluded.

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/05/danish-party-presents-plan-for-full-asylum-stop-until-2025/

Notable: Deep State Has Left ‘Paper Trail As Wide As Interstate-95’

Deep State Has Left ‘Paper Trail As Wide As Interstate-95’ Which Will ‘Fall All Over DC Like Radioactive Ash’

News of Trump’s order to declassify all documents relating to the targeting of his presidential campaign by members of the Obama administration intelligence community has reverberated throughout Washington and beyond since Thursday night. The same Democrats who are demanding that Trump release his business records and tax returns because he “may have” broken the law are panicking over this directive. Rep. Adam Schiff, who has built his reputation on his hatred for Donald Trump, tells reporters it’s “un-American” and of course, he’s worried about revealing “sources and methods.”

For nearly three years, Democrats and the media have persecuted this President, yet they’ve never been able to point to a particular crime. They’ve called for his impeachment, yet offer no specifics. Up until now, general accusations have worked very well for them.

The always colorful social critic and blogger James Howard Kunstler reacted to Trump’s declassification directive in his signature fashion:

Not long ago, few Americans of the thinking persuasion might have imagined that such a well-engineered republic, with its exquisite checks and balances, sturdy institutions, and time-tested traditions would end up as so much smoldering goop in a national dumpster fire, but such is the sad state-of-the-union moving into the fateful summer of 2019. The castle of the permanent bureaucracy is about to be torched by an uprising of deplorable peasants led by a Golden Golem made furious by relentless litigation. It’s Game of Thrones meets the Thermidorian Reaction with a Weimar-flavored cherry on top — really one for the ages!…

The plot they concocted to get rid of him failed. And, yes, it was a plot, even a coup. And they f***ed it up magnificently, leaving a paper trail as wide as Interstate-95. Now all that paper is about to fall over the District of Columbia like radioactive ash, turning many current and former denizens of rogue agencies into the walking dead as they embark on the dismal journey between the grand juries and the federal prisons.

Hence, the desperate rage of the impeachment faction, in direct proportion to their secret shameful knowledge that the entire RussiaGate melodrama was, in fact, a seditious subterfuge between the Hillary Clinton campaign and a great many key figures in government up-to-and-including former president Barack Obama, who could not have failed to be clued-in on all the action. Even before the declassification order, the true narrative of events has been plainly understood: that the US Intel “community” trafficked in fictitious malarkey supplied by Mrs. Clinton to illegally “meddle” in the 2016 election. (Read the entire op-ed here.)

https://www.redstate.com/elizabeth-vaughn/2019/05/25/deep-state-left-paper-trail-wide-interstate-95-will-fall-dc-like-radioactive-ash/

Notable: >>6589107 Coast Guard F15s saw Citation V crash 300 miles off Ft Laud

>>6589107

>https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-ne-cessna-crashes-ocean-20190525-fa2x74uxnvcdfgaankrajscffm-story.html

Possibly notable.

baker screencap of article

Notable: >>6589105 POTUS to present the trophy to the sumo champion is a YUGE honor

Sumo wrestlers are highly respected in Japan. For POTUS to present the trophy to the sumo champion is a YUGE honor. It could be seen to be similar to inviting a foreign president to present the Lombardi trophy at the Superbowl.

https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1132416063445098497

Notable: Amy Klobuchar invokes Jimmy Carter to defend underdog campaign

Amy Klobuchar invokes Jimmy Carter to defend underdog campaign

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/amy-klobuchar-invokes-jimmy-carter-to-defend-underdog-campaign

Notable: Mexico’s economy contracts in 1st quarter

Mexico’s economy contracts in 1st quarter

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexico’s economy shrank in the first quarter of 2019 from the previous three-month period, data showed on Friday, dealing a blow to the new government’s drive to convince investors it can boost growth in Latin America’s second-largest economy.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office in December pledging to ramp up lackluster growth and job creation.

But the economy shrank 0.2 percent compared with the October-December period as services and industrial activity dipped, the first contraction since the second quarter of 2018, according to data from national statistics agency INEGI. The contraction was particularly sharp in March.

“March was a very bad month for economic activity, clocking a 0.6 percent contraction,” Mexican central bank board member Jonathan Heath said on Twitter, citing monthly economic activity data also published on Friday.

Goldman Sachs economist Alberto Ramos said strikes and fuel supply disruptions earlier in the year had contributed to the slump.

After the data was published, Mexico’s benchmark stock index fell more than 1 percent to a two-month low, the peso currency dipped into negative territory, and economic research consultancy Capital Economics cut its Mexican growth forecast to 1.8 percent for 2019.

“The weak Q1 GDP figure means the economy won’t, barring a major surprise, grow by the 2.5 percent that we had projected … The next few years will be underwhelming for Mexico’s economy,” said William Jackson, Chief Emerging Markets Economist at Capital Economics.

Lopez Obrador brushed aside concerns about the data at his daily morning press conference.

“Investment is growing, I said it yesterday, our currency is strong, it is appreciating more than other currencies around the globe and inflation is stable. And there will be growth, much more growth. So we’re going to wait,” said Lopez Obrador.

Mexico received some $10 billion in foreign direct investment in the first quarter, up 7 percent from the same quarter last year, and inflation was slightly lower than expected in the first half of May at 4.43 percent.

The peso has appreciated over 6 percent since Lopez Obrador took office.

Still, some of the president’s decisions have rattled investors, prompting concern among private sector analysts.

The International Monetary Fund on April 9 lowered Mexico’s 2019 growth outlook to 1.6 percent from 2.1 percent, citing shifts in perception about policy.

In a note, Goldman Sachs’ Ramos said high interest rates would weigh on consumer spending, adding that the investment outlook was lackluster, partly due to uncertainty over the ratification of a new trade deal with Mexico’s top export market the United States.

The U.S. economy expanded 3.2 percent in the first quarter in annual terms, but some economists believe that growth rate will be short lived, bringing more gloom to Mexico.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005766446

Notable: ICE arrests 31 in New York immigration sweep

ICE arrests 31 in New York immigration sweep

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/energy/ice-arrests-31-in-new-york-immigration-sweep

Notable: >>6589198 DJT Twat: Bidan vs. Biden. Viva vs Vive

Patriot Anons

[a] missing [e]

Notable: OpEd: Children Sex Trafficked Hidden Victims of Border Crisis

re: Winning: Good info here

Tim Head opinion posted at FOX News with embed video (2 mins) Posted 9hrs ago

(Timothy Head is the executive director for the Faith & Freedom Coalition)

==Children being bought and sold for sex are the hidden victims of the border crisis=

…Since 2007, there have been over 34,000 sex-trafficking cases reported in the United States. Approximately 600 of the cases annually involved foreign nationals smuggling men, women, and children across our southern border…

…Women and girls, some as young as 14, were coerced or abducted and then smuggled across the southern border to perform sex acts for willing buyers. Some victims were forced into sex as many as 45 times daily. These women and girls did not voluntarily enter into prostitution; their captors sold them into the sex trade through beatings, sexual assaults, and threats to their families and children at home….

Over the past year, President Trump has signed four pieces of anti-trafficking legislation focused on the domestic child sex trade.

The Abolish Human Trafficking Act provides resources for trafficking victims.

The Frederick Douglass Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act authorized $430 million to fight sex and labor trafficking.

The Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act removed legal protections for internet platforms that knowingly facilitate child sex trafficking.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act tightens regulations on countries that fail to meet minimum standards of working to end human trafficking, though one piece of legislation with no enforcement trigger is insufficient.

moar

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tim-head-border-crisis-children-bought-sold-sex-victims

Notable: Haberman Warns Intel Could Be Used Selectively (TopKEK)

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2019/05/25/haberman

Notable: Under CIA Chief Gina Haspel, an Intelligence Service Returns to the Shadows

Under CIA Chief Gina Haspel, an Intelligence Service Returns to the Shadows

https://www.wsj.com/articles/under-cia-chief-gina-haspel-an-intelligence-service-returns-to-the-shadows-11558776600

Notable: Dan Coats DIGG, con't.

>https://www.theindychannel.com/news/politics/illinois-millionaires-make-six-figure-donations-to-eric-holcomb-and-john-greggs-campaigns

>https://www.politico.com/story/2010/08/quayle-gets-coats-cash-041040

>https://sunlightfoundation.com/2013/04/10/obama-phones-go-another-name-congress/ (just because)

>https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/summary?cid=N00003845

>https://www.wonkette.com/dan-coats (faggot ass writer)

>https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cid=N00003845&cycle=2016

>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dan-coats-denies-being-anonymous-author-of-new-york-times-opinion-piece

>https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Dan_Coats

>https://www.globalpeace.org/project/campaign-american-renewal

Whaddya know…Koch bros involved.

These mother fuckers are dirty af.

Notable: No moar Rolling Thunder Ride

@WTOP

End of an era: The Rolling Thunder Ride for Freedom will ride through D.C. one last time on Sunday, May 26. Here's what you need to know.

https://twitter.com/WTOP/status/1131585881175928832

Notable: Anon debunks anti-semitic conspiracy theories

>>6583773

Two very old and very discredited anti-semitic/zionist conspiricy theories deserve special mention.

The first is the so-called "Blood Libel." This entials the zccusation that Jews kidnapped and murdered the children of Christians in order to use their blood as part of their religious rituals during Jewish holidays. The tale is extraordinary and wholly illogical. If anything, it is a projection onto the Jews of the darkest aspects of Paganism and other primitive religious rituals.

No observant Jew would ever conceive of such acts. It is absolutely contrary to The Ten Commandments. In addition to the fact that it conttitutes murder, the use of blood (human or otherwise) in cooking is strictly prohibited by the kosher dietary law. Even nlood from slaughtered animals may not be consumed, and it must be drained out of the animal and covered with earth.

While animal sacrifice was part of the practice of ancient Judaism, the Old Testament itself, and all Jewish teachings since, portray human sacrifice as one of the evils that separated the pagans of Canaan from the Hebrews. Nevertheless, this story was started and repeated to serve political ends. It has no basis in fact.

The second is known as "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." Although the exact origin is unknown, its intent was to portray Jews as conspirators against the state. In 24 chapters, or protocols, allegedly minutes from meetings of Jewish leaders, the Protocols describes the secret plans of Jews to rule the world by manipulating the economy, controlling the media, and fostering religious conflict.

It is certainly plausible that the Jewish Rothschild banking family were the inspiration for this global jewish conspiracy. For centuries the Rothschilds built a massive fortune through financial and political intrique. It is beyond doubt that this Jewish family did indeed exert substantial influence on a broad range of historic events, from small to large.

However, even a casual study of the family history reveals that the primary agenda of the Rothschilds was money and power for themselves. Any consideration of Jewish religion, welfare or identity was a distant cousin to this primary consideration.

In any event, in 1903, portions of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion were first published in a Russian newspaper. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, anti-Bolshevik emigres brought the Protocols to the west. Soon after, editions circulated across the globe. An Arabic translation first appeared in the 1920s.

In 1921, the London Times presented conclusive proof that the Protocols were a fraud and a plagiarism. They had been drawn primarily from an 1864 French political satire that had nothing to do with Jews. The satire entitled "Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu" was written as a protest against the Emporer Napoleon.

Notable: Indy 500 to offer measles vaccines

Indy 500 to offer measles vaccines

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some fans attending Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 can get measles vaccines at the track’s infield medical center.

IndyCar medical director Geoffrey Billows said Thursday a “very limited supply” of vaccines will be available at the medical building near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway museum. He says most insurance companies will cover the cost.

Billows encourages concerned fans to get vaccinated before coming to a race expected to attract more than 275,000 spectators.

Measles was once common in the United States but gradually became rare after vaccination campaigns that started in the 1960s.

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005763961

Notable: POTUS to start state visit to Japan for audience with new emperor

POTUS to start state visit to Japan for audience with new emperor

TOKYO (Kyodo) – U.S. President Donald Trump is set to start a four-day state visit to Japan on Saturday, a historic event that will make him the first foreign leader to meet with new Emperor Naruhito.

Trump, flanked by first lady Melania, will have an audience Monday with the emperor and Empress Masako. Trump's itinerary also includes a bilateral meeting, golf outing, visit to a grand sumo tournament and informal dinner with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

Tweeting from Air Force One en route to Japan on Friday, Trump said he is "looking forward to honoring, on behalf of the United States, His Majesty, the Emperor of Japan," and that he will discuss trade and regional security with Abe, whom he called "my friend."

In a meeting Friday with Trump's national security adviser John Bolton in Tokyo, Abe said he welcomes Trump's "historic" visit as the first state guest of Japan's new imperial era of Reiwa and expressed hope that it will further strengthen the bilateral alliance.

Speaking at the White House on Thursday, Trump expressed excitement about traveling to Japan. "With all the countries of the world, I'm the guest of honor at the biggest event that they've had in over 200 years," he said.

Emperor Naruhito ascended the Chrysanthemum Throne on May 1 after former Emperor Akihito abdicated the previous day, the first Japanese monarch to stand down in about 200 years.

In a meeting on Monday, Abe and Trump are expected to discuss bilateral trade and North Korea policy, with Trump pushing Japan to cut its trade surplus with the United States.

Similarly, American farmers have grown concerned about their reduced market share in Japan following the recent enforcement of an 11-nation Pacific free trade agreement including Japan and farming nations such as Australia and New Zealand.

The leaders are also likely to seek a good balance between pressuring North Korea and exploring opportunities for engagement with leader Kim Jong Un in a bid to address the nuclear, missile and abduction issues.

Following the talks with Abe, Trump will meet with the relatives of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. The president raised the abduction issue during the first-ever U.S.-North Korea summit last June in Singapore and also in his second meeting with Kim in February in Hanoi.

On Tuesday, Abe and Trump will board the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force helicopter carrier Kaga docked at an MSDF base in Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, in another demonstration of the firmness of the Japan-U.S. alliance.

Trump will address troops during a visit to the U.S. Yokosuka Naval Base before wrapping up the trip.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190525/p2g/00m/0fp/022000c

Notable: First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

Santa Ana, Calif.-based First American is a leading provider of title insurance and settlement services to the real estate and mortgage industries. It employs some 18,000 people and brought in more than $5.7 billion in 2018.

Earlier this week, KrebsOnSecurity was contacted by a real estate developer in Washington state who said he’d had little luck getting a response from the company about what he found, which was that a portion of its Web site (firstam.com) was leaking tens if not hundreds of millions of records. He said anyone who knew the URL for a valid document at the Web site could view other documents just by modifying a single digit in the link.

And this would potentially include anyone who’s ever been sent a document link via email by First American.

KrebsOnSecurity confirmed the real estate developer’s findings, which indicate that First American’s Web site exposed approximately 885 million files, the earliest dating back more than 16 years. No authentication was required to read the documents.

Many of the exposed files are records of wire transactions with bank account numbers and other information from home or property buyers and sellers. Ben Shoval, the developer who notified KrebsOnSecurity about the data exposure, said that’s because First American is one of the most widely-used companies for real estate title insurance and for closing real estate deals — where both parties to the sale meet in a room and sign stacks of legal documents.

“Closing agencies are supposed to be the only neutral party that doesn’t represent someone else’s interest, and you’re required to have title insurance if you have any kind of mortgage,” Shoval said.

“The title insurance agency collects all kinds of documents from both the buyer and seller, including Social Security numbers, drivers licenses, account statements, and even internal corporate documents if you’re a small business. You give them all kinds of private information and you expect that to stay private.”

Shoval shared a document link he’d been given by First American from a recent transaction, which referenced a record number that was nine digits long and dated April 2019. Modifying the document number in his link by numbers in either direction yielded other peoples’ records before or after the same date and time, indicating the document numbers may have been issued sequentially.

The earliest document number available on the site – 000000075 — referenced a real estate transaction from 2003. From there, the dates on the documents get closer to real time with each forward increment in the record number.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/05/first-american-financial-corp-leaked-hundreds-of-millions-of-title-insurance-records/

Notable: Up to 350 terrorists killed by Syrian army while repelling attacks in Hama governorate (Tass)

@tassagency_en

Up to 350 terrorists killed by Syrian army while repelling attacks in Hama governorate:

http://tass.com/defense/1060058

https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1132085545780371456

Notable: Former UK PM David Cameron on May's resignation

@Reuters

'When you come to that moment when you know that your time is up it's extremely hard to take': Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Theresa May's resignation

@Reuters

'When you come to that moment when you know that your time is up it's extremely hard to take': Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Theresa May's resignation

Notable: Trump attacks MIC & calls for infrastructure investments in Middle East

Trump Attacks Military Industrial Complex and Calls for Infrastructure Investments in the Middle East

For the first time in over half a century, an American President has actually come out attacking the Military Industrial Complex. Of course, everyone knows of President Dwight D. Eisenhauer’s famous outgoing 1961 speech warning the world (and the incoming President Kennedy) what sort of monster had arisen at the heart of America’s defense institutions. Very little on the matter was said on the frightening topic by decades of political leaders who rose to prominence in the shadow of JFK’s corpse. Instead, the beast grew like a malignant cancer over the ensuing years as a major branch of the British-run deep state that carried out a coup with Sir Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech in 1946 and the MI6-directed re-organization of American intelligence with the creation of the CIA in 1947.

After John F. Kennedy’s assassination, networks of neoconservative contaminated all branches of government in both parties bringing the USA into a frenzied military doctrine centered on regime change wars, oil-centered geopolitics and unipolarism totally uncharacteristic with the better constitutional traditions of the nation. This geopolitical doctrine nearly drove the west into a full military confrontation with Russia and China in recent years.

The Tide Begins to Turn

On May 20 speaking to Fox News, President Trump echoed Eisenhauer’s warnings. Under a coterie of Trump’s war-mongering advisors such as John Bolton, Gina Haspel, Terrence O’Shaughnessy and Mike Pompeo, America has recently been brought to the brink of war with Iran. While Trump has too often accommodated this hive of neocons, his recent statements and repeated calls for cooperation with Russia and China demonstrate a sound push back which should be taken very seriously. In that Fox interview Trump said:

https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/05/23/trump-attacks-military-industrial-complex-and-calls-for-infrastructure-investments-in-middle-east/

Notable: >>6583609 Watch the water? Excessive rains causing flooding in many part of the US this week

Watch The Water?

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-23/close-trigger-levels-mississippi-floodway-may-be-opened-unleashing-17-million

Mississippi Floodway May Be Opened, Unleashing 17 Million Liters Of Water Per Second

17

long shot!

Notable: Coats said "must review DECLAS" in Sept '18 before releasing; will Barr now take the heat?

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/coats-doj-complying-order-review-first

POTUS told Coats to DECLAS Sept 18, 2018. And he tells Barr to do pretty much the same thing May 23, 2019? SO did Coats not DECLAS? Or did COATS do a stealth DECLAS for the Huber and Durham investigations and Barr is now going to take the heat?

Notable: >>6583810, >>6583896 Jon Voight: To my fellow Americans

Jon Voight

‏Verified account

@jonvoight

2h2 hours ago

To my fellow Americans. Part 1 and Part 2 from Jon Voight (his 17th twat)

Our Country is stronger, safer, because our President has made his every move correct.

https://twitter.com/jonvoight/status/1132093445743489024

Notable: Operation Blackwrist rescues 50 children from pedophile ring

Breaking: Operation Blackwrist rescues 50 children from pedophile ring. 61,000 suspects & influential Americans indicted.

"The identities of the others arrested are yet to be released, but some are residing in the US and held public positions of trust, said Eric McLoughlin, the HSI's regional attache in Bangkok."

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-48379983

Notable: Assange's mother and Bernie Sanders' tweets on Julian

Julian Assange's Mother's Tweets

Odd Sanders Would Tweet This:

https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1132021213717512193

https://twitter.com/AssangeMrs/status/1132093886405287936

Notable: , >>6583027, >>6583141 Federal judge partially blocks border wall plan

Who needs a President when you have random federal Judges appointed by Obama who apparently run the country?

twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1132095083765886976

Federal judge partially blocks Trump's $1 billion border wall plan

thehill.com/homenews/administration/445528-federal-judge-partially-blocks-funding-for-trumps-border-wall-report

Notable: Past Q Post of POTUS flying over Alaska

>>6582810

POTUS tweets video of Alaska with mountain range seen out of AF1. Reminded me of this June 12 2018 Q post with image titled Alaska_Vols_G7_SING

Notable: , >>6582791, >>6582810 POTUS' schedule and trip updates

POTUS Schedule for May 25, 2019

Subject: DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR SATURDAY, MAY 25, 2019

poolreports

18 minutes ago

The White House

LOCAL /EDT

5:10PM / 4:10AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at Haneda Airport Tokyo, Japan

5:25PM / 4:25AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart Haneda Airport en route to the Ambassador’s Residence Tokyo, Japan

5:45PM / 4:45AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at the Ambassador’s Residence Tokyo, Japan

5:55PM / 4:55AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY attend a reception with Japanese business leaders Tokyo, Japan

7:00PM / 6:00AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart the Ambassador’s Residence en route to the RON Tokyo, Japan

7:10PM / 6:10AM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY arrive at the RON Tokyo, Japan

moar

https://publicpool.kinja.com/subject-daily-guidance-and-press-schedule-for-saturday-1835018774

Notable: , >>6583100, >>6583112 Trump calls for invest. into UK & Aus in 'Russia hoax'

Trump ‘Hopes’ Barr Scrutinizes British And Australian Role In ‘Hoax’ Investigation

President Donald Trump said Friday he hopes the attorney general looks at the roles played by the British, Australian and Ukrainian governments in the investigation of the Trump campaign.

Trump called out the allied governments when asked about his decision to authorize Barr to declassify a slew of documents related to the origins of the Russia probe.

“I hope he looks at everything,” Trump said of Barr.

President Donald Trump on Friday said he hopes Attorney General William Barr looks at intelligence the British, Australian and Ukrainian governments provided their American counterparts as part of the investigation of the Trump campaign.

“And I hope he looks at the U.K., and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything, because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country,” Trump told reporters of Barr.

Trump authorized Barr to declassify documents Thursday related to the FBI’s surveillance of the Trump campaign. He also instructed other federal agencies, including the CIA and FBI, to provide classified materials to Barr as part of an inquiry he is making into the government surveillance of the Trump campaign.

Barr has said while he believes “spying” occurred against the campaign, he wants to find out whether it was authorized and legal.

“[W]hat I’ve done is I’ve declassified everything,” Trump said Friday.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/trump-barr-australia-surveillance-uk/

Notable: POTUS asks Citizenship and Immigration Services head to quit

https://apnews.com/dac6d2adc09146f3a569c1aea5741443

Trump asks Citizenship and Immigration Services head to quit

President Donald Trump asked the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to resign, leaving yet another vacancy within the Department of Homeland Security.

Lee Francis Cissna told staff on Friday that his last day would be June 1, according to a copy of the email obtained by The Associated Press.

Cissna leads the agency responsible for legal immigration, including benefits and visas. With his departure, there are more than a dozen vacancies of top leadership positions at the sprawling, 240,000-employee department. Some are being temporarily filled, including secretary and inspector general. Cissna’s position, like others, requires Senate confirmation.

Notable: Nail bomb explosion injures 13 in Lyon

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/781180/lyon-explosion-injuries-victor-hugo-golden-brioche-police

Terror fears as nail bomb explosion injures 13 in Lyon

Conveniently… he was simply a man wearing a mask… In other news, pic related.

Notable: SK orders further arrests at Samsung over accounting scandal

>>6582754 @Reuters

South Korea orders further arrests at Samsung Electronics over accounting scandal

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1132069032809631744

Notable: More high profile NXIVM connections. Dig call

Whistleblower Tells All, Claiming Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand and Other Prominent Democrats Are Involved in Human Trafficking, Sex Slavery, and Satanism

(Ethan Huff) A former publicist for the infamous sex cult NXIVM has come forward as a whistleblower to tell all that he knows about the evils he witnessed while working for the group – and perhaps more importantly, to reveal the identities of some of the corrupt politicians who were also involved.

During an exclusive interview on The Campaign Show with Patrick Howley, which airs on Patriots Soapbox, Frank Parlato discussed the trial of Keith Raniere, NXIVM’s cult leader and top dog. Parlato also talked about how Raniere and other NXIVM leadership were very closely aligned with Hillary Clinton, having given “illegally bundled money,” to quote Big League Politics, to her 2008 presidential campaign.

According to Parlato, NXIVM routinely trafficked in teenage girls from Mexico, who were then turned into sex slaves and physically branded on their bodies with Raniere’s initials. And unbeknownst to millions of Americans are the many mainstream politicians who, at the very least, appear to have known that this was going on – and some of whom may have also been perpetrators themselves.

As it turns out, Democrat senator for New York and 2020 presidential contender Kirsten Gillibrand has been called out for her close “family ties” to the NXIVM sex cult. Gillibrand’s father and stepmother, who are second cousins, were both heavily involved with NXIVM before they married. Gillibrand’s father, Doug Rutnik, is also a former employee of NXIVM.

According to Big League Politics, Gillibrand’s father functioned as a broker between Raniere, NXIVM’s leader, and then-New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, who had been working at the time to “resolve” Raniere’s “financial problems with the state” – this, according to Joseph O’Hara, another ex-employee at NXIVM-turned-whistleblower.

https://stillnessinthestorm.com/2019/05/whistleblower-tells-all-claiming-hillary-clinton-chuck-schumer-kirsten-gillibrand-and-other-prominent-democrats-are-involved-in-human-trafficking-sex-slavery-and-satanism/

Needs digging to verify Ethan Huff and see if he's legit

Notable: CNN highlight the ability to make 'fake videos' again

>>6582641 pb

NOTABLE

REPOSTING THIS ANONS POST FROM pb

Too late fake news and DS.

The videos you are so worried about are likely already entered as evidence.

Hello HRC…

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1132090318290083840

Notable: Clock Update - Reread crumbs

Q CLOCK UPDATE - RE-READ CRUMBS

Today's Q Clock :53

EXTREME PANIC IN [DC]

Will the release occur post scheduled testimony?

If those testifying 'know' select CLAS docs will become public [self-incrimination] how might that alter/change their testimony?

Executive Order 13526

Will immediate action(s) be 'publicly' taken within each country to REUNIFY THE BOND that was once held PRIOR TO…….[CLAS 9]?

[Koala]

Be careful who you follow.

Today's :25/:55 Q Clock Mirror :57

You are now mainstream.

Handle w/ care.

Why isn't FOX NEWS part of the MSM coordinated blitz attack?

A picture is worth many sentences.

Has POTUS ever made a statement that hasn't been proven to be correct (future)?

Think SC lock.

Locked & (who is) Loaded.

Today's 180-Degree Q Clock Mirror :23

Those who would seek personal gain at the expense of others in this movement has an agenda.

Personal thank you to the BO, Bakers, and Autists/Anons who continually dedicate their time and energy to the GREAT AWAKENING.

You are all Patriots.

Statements today needed to be made.

What is coming?

Fireworks.

D's are in crisis mode.

THIS IS ABOUT SAVING AMERICA. WRWY N1LB FG&C WWG1WGA!

Notable: , >>6582737 Layoffs continue to rock CNN, almost an entire division laid off

https://www.dailywire.com/news/47665/trump-broke-cnn-layoffs-continue-rock-far-left-ryan-saavedra

Notable: The Great Awakening - New cover releases

Volume 64 (new)

Will post for the morning crew tomorrow.

Moebius inspired.

Heavy Metal.(old)

o7 BO, BV's, Bakers, Patriots WW.

GAanon out.

Notable: Evidence of Obama admin. political surveillance beginning mid 2012

Evidence of Obama Administration Political Surveillance Beginning Mid-2012

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/05/24/evidence-of-obama-administration-political-surveillance-beginning-mid-2012/

Top Secret FISA Court Order - President Obama Spying on Political Enemies

A newly released court order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) found that the National Security Agency, under former President Obama, routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall. In describing the violations, the FISA court said the illegal searches conducted by the NSA under Obama were "widespread" and created a "very serious Fourth Amendment issue." These new discoveries come from a recently unsealed FISA court document dated April 26, 2017 and center around a hearing dated October 26, 2017, just days before the 2016 election, in which the FISA court apparently learned for the first time of "widespread" and illegal spying on American citizens by the NSA under the Obama administration.

https://www.scribd.com/document/349542716/Top-Secret-FISA-Court-Order-President-Obama-Spying-on-Political-Enemies

Notable: Did Smollett rat out Hollywood? Top FBI Child Trafficking Chief called in

>>6582353

>>6582284

whoops, forgot the graphic

Top FBI Child Trafficking & Child Prostitution Task Force Chief helped Chicago PD investigate Smollett hoax; Did Jussie Rat Out Hollywood?

The Jussie Smollett case just got even more bizarre with potential troubling revelations.

Internal Chicago Police records show detectives employed a top FBI Supervisory Special Agent specializing in investigating the trafficking of sexually exploited children, child prostitution and aggravated child sexual abuse to help investigate the Smollett assault hoax case.

During early stages of the investigation, records show, Chicago Police shared Intel with the FBI and FBI Special Agent Gregory Wing was working the investigation daily alongside city detectives.

But Wing supervises the Child Sex Crimes and Violent Crimes Against Children squad in the FBI’s Chicago Field Office and is considered one of the top agents investigating child sex trafficking in the country, according to the FBI……

https://truepundit.com/top-fbi-child-sex-trafficking-did-jussie-rat-out-hollywood/

Notable: Notes from the latest on the NXIVM trial

local 'reporter' @AylaFerrone's notes from latest NXIVM Trial transcript

```1)``` The next chunk of testimony is about her upbringing in Mexico and her family. Says she was always a good student, interested in the sciences. Explains in high school her older sister had an eating disorder.

```2)```The witness says she had plans to attend an elite school in Switzerland. Says her parents were taking ESP classes and they had enrolled her in some as well. Her parents gifted her a 16 day intensive as a going away present.

```3)```She says during the intensive she learned about Raniere and was convinced he was the smartest man in the world. She describes more about the intensive and what was said about Raniere.

```4)```Eventually she gave up her scholarship to the school in Switzerland and moved to Albany during V Week of 2002. Says she remembers her first meeting with Raniere and that he knew she was smart. Says it was a special moment for her.

```5)```She describes the stripe path we’ve heard about in previous testimony as well as other inner circle members she met at V Week. Talks about Nancy Salzman and describes her as “a little bit frightening.”

```6)```She now describes the enrollment process of NXIVM/ESP which we’ve also heard about in previous testimony. Essentially structured like a MLM scheme. Says while she was in Albany she stayed with Edgar Boone.

```7)```Says she was being taught to do some programming by upper level NXIVM members. Says she would make herself useful in any way she could including cleaning.

```8)```Eventually her older sister got in some trouble in Mexico and was sent to Albany to live with her and take care of her. Says her sister was depressed for a while but then started going to ESP classes.

```9)``` Now she’s talking about volleyball nights. Says she always went to see Raniere but was too shy to talk to him. Says it was an opportunity to have more personal contact. She ended up having a deeper conversation with him later in 2003.

```10)```Says she was considering going back to school and that Raniere was very attentive to her concerns. Says he gave her a brain teaser and told her to get back to him when she solved it. She said this was exciting for her. She wanted to show off.

```11)``` Says she solved it before he left that night and he was impressed. Says after this there was more one on one contact. Raniere also offered to tutor her. Told her not to go back to school. This is where they take a mid-morning break.

3:38 PM - 24 May 2019

https://twitter.com/aylaferrone/status/1132052162308116482?s=21

Notable: Space Force clears Senate Committee after House attempt to stall

Space Force Clears Senate Committee After House Attempt to Stall

https://www.govexec.com/defense/2019/05/space-force-clears-senate-committee-after-house-attempt-stall/157246/?oref=channelriver

Notable: , >>6582326 Past Americans charged with treason

>>6582142

Has almost never happened. I just don’t see it being used in todays society.

The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.

("Attainder of treason" referred to a practice in Europe at the time of impoverishing, ostracizing and banishing a traitor's family and descendants.)

Aaron Burr — third vice president of the United States, 1801-05, planned a Mexican "empire," 1807.

Sidelined politically and embittered after he killed archrival Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804, Burr conspired with Gen. James Wilkinson to invade Mexico and establish an empire.

Wilkinson turned him in, and Burr was tried for treason in 1807, based on an accusation that his empire was to include parts of the western United States. Chief Justice John Marshall, who acquitted Burr, said that to prove treason, "war must actually be levied against the United States … conspiracy (to levy war) is not treason."

Thomas W. Dorr — Rhode Island rebel, 1841-42.

Dorr is the only man to be convicted of treason against a state, Rhode Island. He led an uprising against Gov. Samuel King because the state was still adhering to its pre-Revolutionary constitution, and had not enfranchised non-property owners or established a bill of rights. His supporters elected him governor in 1842 in an extralegal convention, and for a while Rhode Island had two administrations. King had him tried and sentenced to life imprisonment for treason in 1844. The same year, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the conviction against claims that one could not commit treason against a state. Dorr was pardoned in 1845, and his reforms were soon adopted.

Max Haupt — Father of a saboteur, 1942.

Haupt was the father of Herbert Haupt, one of eight Nazi saboteurs convicted by a military tribunal in 1942, and one of six executed. The elder Haupt was charged in 1943 with treason for "giving aid and comfort" to the enemy because he had harbored his son in his Chicago apartment, bought him a car and found him a job, knowing that he planned sabotage.

Max Haupt didn't dispute the facts – it was he who had volunteered the information to the FBI in a fruitless attempt to show that his son was manipulated by others. Instead, the father argued that he had committed the "commonplace, insignificant and colorless" acts of a father. A jury convicted Haupt in 1944, but recommended mercy; he was spared death, and was sentenced to life.

Upholding the conviction in 1947, Supreme Court Judge Robert Jackson said: "It is argued that Haupt merely had the misfortune to sire a traitor … the jury apparently concluded that the son had the misfortune of being a chip off the old block."

Tomoya Kawakita, the tormentor who came home, World War II.

Kawakita, born in California, went to Japan in 1939 when he was 18 to visit his grandfather. He stayed, never renouncing his U.S. citizenship. He was employed as an interpreter with a Japanese nickel company. He was never conscripted, but Japanese authorities used him as an interpreter in a prisoner of war camp.

He readily joined in the abuse of American prisoners, "going beyond any conceivable duty of an interpreter," according to the U.S. Supreme Court. He beat some, pushed another into a cesspool and forced the obviously ill into hard labor.

After the war, he re-registered as a U.S. citizen and returned home. His former victims, who knew him as "Meatball," spotted him and turned him in, and he was sentenced to death for treason in 1952. President Eisenhower commuted his sentence to life in 1953.

Notable: Pelosi calling for an assination? Graphic

Pelosi: "IT’S REALLY BAD, ASSASSINATE."

Notable: More layoffs at Newsweak

More Layoffs at Newsweek :)

Notable: Epstein sex abuse victims ask Acosta to explain his actions

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article230708394.html

Notable: , >>6581974 Soros' foundation culpable in the opioid crisis? New report

Soros' Open Society Foundations…

Culpable in the opioid crisis per a new bipartisan congressional report on exposing the pharma industry's influence on the World Health Organization.

See page 20…

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6025139/May-22-Report-Congress.pdf

Notable: Do you even lift bans bro? CrossFit boycotts FB after group banned

CrossFit Boycotts Facebook After 1.65 Million Strong Facebook Group Is Banned

Today the popular workout and diet program CrossFit announced its decision to discontinue all use of Facebook after one of its affiliate groups, which had over 1.65 million users in its Facebook group, was banned from the platform without explanation.

After the Banting7DayMealPlan Facebook group was banned without explanation, CrossFit announced its decision to end all use of both Facebook and Instagram in an apparent boycott.

According to CrossFit, the group was used by over 1.65 million users to share advice, testimonials, and provide encouragement to users pursuing the CrossFit health plan.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/crossfit-boycotts-facebook-after-1-65-million-strong-facebook-group-is-banned/

Notable: ‘Everyone else must take my place’: Assange in letter from British prison

‘Everyone else must take my place’: Assange in letter from British prison

In a handwritten letter from Belmarsh prison, WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange says he is being denied a chance to defend himself and that elements in the US that “hate truth, liberty and justice” want him extradited and dead.

The letter was sent to independent British journalist Gordon Dimmack. It was dated May 13 – ten days before the US announced 17 additional charges under the Espionage Act against the jailed whistleblower.

In light of the new indictment, Dimmack read out the letter in a YouTube video. A photo of the handwritten note was soon posted online as well.

“I have been isolated from all ability to prepare to defend myself: no laptop, no internet, ever, no computer, no library, so far, but even if I get access it will just be for a half an hour, with everyone else, once a week,” Assange wrote. “The other side? A superpower that has been preparing for 9 years, with hundreds of people and untold millions spent on the case.”

Assange was arrested on April 11, after Ecuador revoked his political asylum and UK police seized him from the Latin American country’s embassy in London. He was sentenced to 50 weeks behind bars for skipping bail, and sent to Belmarsh, a prison south of London once dubbed 'British Guantanamo' for being used to jail terrorism suspects.

I am defenseless.

“I am unbroken, albeit literally surrounded by murderers, but, the days where I could read and speak and organize to defend myself, my ideals, and my people are over until I am free! Everyone else must take my place,” Assange wrote in the letter.

The WikiLeaks publisher had sought refuge in Ecuador in 2012, claiming – correctly, as it turned out – that trumped-up charges in Sweden would be used to get him extradited to the US. A secret indictment of Assange, only made public in March, charged him with violating the Espionage Act over the 2010 publication of secret US military and diplomatic documents.

“The US government, or rather, those regrettable elements in it that hate truth, liberty and justice, want to cheat their way into my extradition and death, rather than letting the public hear the truth, for which I have won the highest awards in journalism and have been nominated 7 times for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Assange wrote.

Truth, ultimately, is all we have.

The new charges against Assange have alarmed even the mainstream media outlets that have spent years pouring vitriol on WikiLeaks, as they began to realize his prosecution along those lines would essentially criminalize all journalism. However, because Assange and WikiLeaks have been demonized by advocates of the Russiagate conspiracy theory as “agents of the Kremlin” and spies, media pushback against the charges has been muted at best.

https://www.rt.com/news/460215-assange-letter-from-prison/

Notable: >>6581271 3:22 PM ET timestamp on CNN AF1 article

>>6581154

Time stamp: 322

Msg?

By Kaitlan Collins and Kevin Liptak, CNN

'Updated 3:22 PM ET'

Fri May 24, 2019

Notable: planefag - E-4B night-watch in route with POTUS in AF-1

looks like E-4B night-watch in route with POTUS in AF-1

Notable: >>6581111 anons and Beer at the Parade show why were are ANON - it is our Humanity

No sir - WRWY.

I do not take joy in the suffering of others. We understand pain and suffering. Anyone who has been where you were, will understand…

https://twitter.com/beer_parade/status/1132044966241472516

Something that has helped me:

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”

― Friedrich W. Nietzsche

Notable: CNN currently sending message? Why include a pic of JFK getting off of AF1…

CNN currently sending message? Why include a pic of JFK getting off of AF1 on the day he was assassinated with a story about Trump's trip to Japan?

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/24/politics/donald-trump-air-force-one-travel-foreign-trips/index.html

Notable: update/log of NXIVM political and Clinton ties

Moar Yuge NXIVM political and Clinton ties

Nancy Salzman

Pamela Cafritz and Karen Unterreiner

Mark Vicente

The writer/producer/director of "What the Bleep Do We Know"

Roger Stone

Linda Evans - actress

Richard L. Mays - Clinton pal and fundraiser

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/clinton-friend-fundraiser-active-sex-cult-hacked-hillarys-emails/

Steve Pigeon - former Erie County Democratic Party chairman

Sara and Clare Bronfman

Alfonse D'Amato

The former NY Senator's lobbying and public affairs firm, Park Strategies, was hired for undisclosed reasons by NXIVM board member Clare Bronfman.

Joseph L. Bruno - former NY Senate Majority Leader

Jack Casey

Bruno's former Senate lawyer, the past Rensselaer County Republican Party chairman.

Antonia Novello- former NY state Health Commissioner

Richard Branson

English business magnate with Virgin Group has been enrolled.

Goldie Hawn - actress

Markham Group

The Arkansas-based political advisors, which has advised several presidents, has also been hired by NXIVM or one or both of the Bronfman sisters.

Lama Tenzin Dhonden

The emissary for the Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama

Wrote a foreword for a book Raniere co-wrote with a NXIVM follower that was published around the time of the spiritual leader's visit to Albany in 2009.

https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/NXIVM-courts-rich-powerful-and-influential-3253818.php

Over 18 months, the Markham Group produced 1,500 plus public events for Secretary Clinton and her 10 major surrogates including President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Senator Tim Kaine and his wife Secretary Anne Holton, President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden, and Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Our events ranged in size from press conferences to Secretary Clinton’s largest rallies that served as the everyday face of the campaign. The events resulted in millions of dollar’s worth of earned media and were heralded by many media outlets including, but not limited, to the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times.

https://www.markhamgroup.com/case-studies/hillary-clinton-2016-presidential-campaign/

D'Amato is a lobbyist, and he is close to Gillibrand. When he was the Republican Senator, Gillibrand interned in his office. D'Amato was there the day Gillibrand was appointed to replace former U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton in 2009, standing center-stage.

https://www.wnyc.org/story/244196-longs-hurdle-gillibrand-damato-connection/

https://culteducation.com/group/907-nxivm/6066-political-connections-take-to-the-air.html

Notable: Dig on NP. (graphic)

baker notable

graphic dig into Pelosi crime family and various connections within US politics/swamp. Soros connections to pelosi graphic included as well.

Notable: DJT Tweet: Dems want a second shot at Mueller.

NEW DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132038993682419712

Notable: Memers call to action.

>>6580302

Love the bread title, Baker! Thanks!

One might almost wanna put pepe faces on the fish being fed these crumbs.

Notable: China dealing with grain destroying worm.

China might want to sign that trade deal soon. Starving people like to revolt against their governments.

https://twitter.com/kannbwx/status/1131924880364957696

Notable: SEC whistleblower gets $4.5 Million.

Former Brazil Surgeon Turned SEC Whistleblower Gets $4.5 Million

A former Brazilian surgeon who blew the whistle on a medical device company that allegedly bribed doctors to win business will get a $4.5 million award from U.S. regulators, according to his lawyers.

The surgeon will get the money for playing a crucial role in helping the Securities and Exchange Commission uncover a bribery scandal at Biomet Inc. that spanned the globe, his attorneys Christopher Connors and Andy Rickman said in a Friday statement that didn’t identify the doctor by name.

"Today’s award will spur many would-be foreign whistleblowers to come forward now that they know that the SEC is committed to rewarding whistleblowers” for tips tied to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act anti-bribery law, said Connors and Rickman.

Biomet, which has paid tens of millions of dollars to the U.S. government to settle charges of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act violations, is now named Zimmer Biomet.

The company didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The SEC separately issued a statement Friday that said it was granting more than $4.5 million to a whistleblower who reported “significant wrongdoing” to the regulator after filing an anonymous tip internally to a company. SEC rules prevent the agency from naming whistleblowers or even identifying the specific enforcement actions that trigger awards.

The Dodd-Frank Act required the SEC to start a whistleblower program. The agency can give tipsters as much as 30% of any fine for cases that lead to sanctions exceeding $1 million. The regulator says it has awarded more than $380 million since 2012.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-24/former-brazil-surgeon-turned-sec-whistleblower-gets-4-5-million

Notable: Clinton advisor realizes her book is based on a falsehood.

Listen To The Awkward Moment This Clinton Advisor Realized Her Book Was Based On A Falsehood

A former advisor to Bill Clinton and Al Gore may have set a record for fastest discrediting of a book when a BBC interviewer showed her the central thesis was based on a misreading of legal terminology.

Naomi Wolf’s book, “Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love,” which is not even out for another month, makes the claim that the British government continued to execute people for sodomy long after it was previously thought the practice ended. Wolf looked at records from the Old Bailey and saw the term “death recorded,” a term she realizes in this interview actually refers to cases in which a sentence of death is passed but suspended.

Wolf claims to have found “several dozen executions.” Her research, she claims, “corrects a misapprehension that is in every website that the last man was executed for sodomy in Britain in 1835.”

“I don’t think you’re right about this,” the BBC’s Matthew Sweet replied to her in the interview.

The presenter pointed to the case of Thomas Silver in 1859. Wolf claims in her book that Silver was executed, but he was not. “Death recorded” meant that a judge used judicial discretion to suspend a death sentence, a practice in use since the 1820s.

“I don’t think any of the executions you’ve identified here actually happened,” Sweet added.

“That’s a really important thing to investigate,” Wolf replied. (RELATED: The Trumpire Strikes Back)

Sweet also added that the offense in question hardly makes a good example of same-sex love being criminalized, as it involved a 14 year-old’s “indecent assault” on a six year-old boy.

Wolf is a Yale graduate and Rhodes Scholar who did graduate work at Oxford.

Sweet, for his part, has since started a thread on Twitter explaining more in depth where he thinks Wolf went wrong.

https://twitter.com/thymetikon/status/1131702577878503425

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/naomi-wolf-bbc-interview-book-clinton-advisor/

Notable: DOJ files charges against two owners of Doctor's Choice.

@TheJusticeDept 8:12 AM - 24 May 2019

United States Files False Claims Act Complaint Against Home Health Agency and Two of Its Owners

The United States has filed a complaint in intervention against Doctor’s Choice Home Care Inc (Doctor’s Choice), Timothy Beach, and Stuart Christensen alleging False Claims Act violations arising from the alleged payment of kickbacks in the form of sham medical director agreements and payments to the spouses of referring physicians, the Department of Justice today announced. Doctor’s Choice is a home health agency based in Sarasota, Florida. Timothy Beach and Stuart Christensen are partial owners of Doctor’s Choice.

https://twitter.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1131940984055635968

Notable: John Brennan's thesaurus didn't come with a sense of humor.

Brennan starting to gin

Reading the supporting tweets is astounding. People still actually believe Trump is going to prison.

https://twitter.com/JohnBrennan

Notable: DJT Tweet: Strong Republicans, record territory and have a great Memorial Weekend.

NEW DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1131998750354731008

Notable: >>6580682, >>6580772 Comey distress signal?

New Comey Tweet

Hidden Msg?

Notable: FBI crime stats tool.

9:45 AM - 24 May 2019@FBI

Researching crime stats and viewing crime data is easier with the #FBI’s Crime Data Explorer. View interactive data across the nation from any device. Search, sort, and view trends by state and types of crime. Learn more at https://www.fbi.gov/cde .

https://twitter.com/FBI/status/1131964443523465216

9:45 AM - 24 May 2019

Notable: Utah judge suspended for 6 months after making anti-Trump comments.

Utah Judge Suspended for 6 Months After Making Anti-Trump Comments

A judge has been suspended for six months without pay after the Utah Supreme Court upheld a decision to discipline the judicial officer for his politically-charged and anti-Trump comments. Judge Michael Kwan admitted that he had violated the Utah Code of Judicial Conduct on a number of occasions when he made “shirty and politically charged comments to a defendant in his courtroom,” lost his temper with a member of the court’s staff, and criticized then-presidential candidate Donald Trump on social media, according to the court’s decision.

In an opinion handed down on May 24, the Supreme Court ruled that Kwan’s conduct “diminishes the reputation of our entire judiciary.” “Judge Kwan’s behavior denigrates his reputation as an impartial, independent, dignified, and courteous jurist who takes no advantage of the office in which he serves,” the court wrote. They added that the Taylorsville Justice Court judge had previously been disciplined for other violations of the code including a “crass in-court reference to sexual conduct and a former president of the United States,” the opinion said. The Judicial Conduct Commission subsequently handed down the suspension, before the judge challenged it at the state’s highest court.

He argued that the six months suspension is an unconstitutional attempt to regulate his protected speech and that a lesser penalty like probation is more appropriate. But the court said, “the problem here is not primarily a concern that Judge Kwan has voiced his views on a range of political issues via his criticisms of Donald Trump” instead it was because his conduct was inconsistent to the public’s expectation that a judge “decide[s] issues with utmost fairness, independence, and impartiality.” “[A] judge must at times set aside the power of his or her voice—which becomes inextricably tied to his or her position—as a tool to publicly influence the results of a local, regional, or national election,” the opinion stated.

Kwan faced investigations for an exchange with a defendant he made in 2017 in his courtroom, where he appeared to demean the defendant as well as Trump’s immigration and tax policies.

Judge: So, what happened with your fine payments? Defendant: So, I, just, live paycheck to paycheck . . . . Judge: Ok. So, when you set up the pay plan you were hoping you would have the money and it didn’t pan out that way? Defendant: And I did not call, but I plan on when I get my taxes to just pay off all my court fines, because I cannot end up in jail again for not complying. Judge: You do realize that we have a new president, and you think we are getting any money back? Defendant: I hope. Judge: You hope? Defendant: I pray and I cross my fingers. Judge: Ok. Prayer might be the answer. ‘Cause, he just signed an order to start building the wall and he has no money to do that, and so if you think you are going to get taxes back this year, uh-yeah, maybe, maybe not. But don’t worry[,] there is a tax cut for the wealthy so if you make over $500,000 you’re getting a tax cut. You’re right[] there[,] right? Pretty close? All[]right, so do you have a plan? Other than just get the tax cut and pay it off?

Kwan’s suspension also related to his 2016 comments and shared articles on his Facebook and LinkedIn accounts. He also continued to make similar comments about Trump following the presidential election, which the court described as comments “laden with blunt, and sometimes indelicate, criticism [about Trump].”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/utah-judge-suspended-for-6-months-after-making-anti-trump-comments_2935739.html

Notable: Wis. man who kidnapped Closs gets life sentence.

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1132024103152627712?s=19

Notable: Marketfag report.

US Market Report

Volumes the usual story-low

Some headlines

New rule would let U.S. companies sue foreign rivals over currency weakness

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-rule-would-let-us-companies-sue-foreign-rivals-over-currency-weakness-2019-05-24?

JPMorgan's Kolanovic Sees a ‘Trump Collar’ on U.S. Stock Market

https://www.bloomberg.com//news/articles/2019-05-24/jpmorgan-s-kolanovic-sees-a-trump-collar-on-u-s-stock-market?srnd=markets-vp

for once I agree with someone from this place.

China remains best YTD followed by Europe and US the slight laggard.

Chinese stocks were lower on the week with tech-heavy indices hit hardest.

wait until next week….

European markets were all lower on the week, led by Italy.

"Most Shorted" Stocks had their 3rd weekly loss in a row - the biggest 3-week drop of the year - as Tuesday's short-squeeze couldn't last.

hope you short anons took some of your gains-holding over the weekend always risky-good luck in either case-o7

Technology stocks overall were whacked.

Energy stocks are down 7 weeks in a row.

this solely down to oil and it's drop and meandering prior.

Musk had a bad week.

On paper he lost about $167m-suckers.

Credit markets blew wider this week even as VIX ended the week almost unchanged.

This insurance against asset failure-this is getting to 2008 levels quickly.

The problem here is that Wall St has leveraged itself into oblivion and is trying to insure it now against reality.

Treasury yields took a breather today (and a half day ahead of Memorial Day) after a breathless plunge midweek.

Quite the ride-see Cap#3

Slamming yields to multi-year lows.

The yield curve crashed back into inversion this week.

mmmmmkay….it's coming.

And ugly week for WTI crude (and copper) with PMs managing gains.

Nanook clubbed copper today-don't eat da yellow snow.

Finally, The Fed has a problem - how's it going to be able to support the market when investors are already pricing in 45bps of rate cuts for 2019.

See Cap#4-danger Will Robinson-for them at least.

But there is a silver lining…It’s going to cost you less to refill the propane tank for your gas grill this Memorial Day weekend. Propane prices have plunged this month, reaching their lowest level in more than 2 1/2 years.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-24/stocks-suffer-worst-streak-8-years-trade-tempest-sparks-rates-rout

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI?p=^DJI

Have a great weekend fellow anons- it's an honor to be able to share these times with you.

Notable: >>6580683 Madera County woman pleads guilty to aiding and abetting production of child pornography.

Madera County Woman Pleads Guilty to Aiding and Abetting Production of Child Pornography

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/madera-county-woman-pleads-guilty-aiding-and-abetting-production-child-pornography

Notable: Donald Trump to skip Scotland during UK visit.

Come on POTUS, change your mind. Turnberry and Aberdeen are both easy to get to for me.

Seen AF1 land at Prestwick last year, awesome sight.

Donald Trump to skip Scotland during UK visit

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/donald-trump-to-skip-scotland-during-uk-visit-1-4934411?fbclid=IwAR3FXHGRjNMSgFzr7Mboq0f-SM2SRWH9Y-_NlNsV7mD0oDbKC2dx6O7Gu6s

Notable: Missing persons missing children reports drop to lowest in decades.

https://m.theepochtimes.com/missing-persons-missing-children-reports-drop-to-lowest-in-decades_2934122.html/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Notable: Coats statement on Barr's authority to declas.

Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said that he is “confident” Attorney General Bill Barr will “protect” classified info while the intelligence community cooperates with him, in a Friday statement addressing Trump’s decision to allow Barr to publicize intelligence relating to the start of the Russia probe.

Coats also said that the intelligence community will “continue” to share “apolitical intelligence” with the rest of the government.

The statement comes one day after the President issued an order to the CIA and the rest of the country’s intelligence agencies to cooperate with Justice Department investigations examining the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation.

Trump delegated huge authority in the order to Barr, who now has the power to declassify documents that he receives from the intelligence community without additional review.

“I am confident that the Attorney General will work with the [intelligence community] in accordance with the long-established standards to protect highly-sensitive classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk,” Coats said.

House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff called Trump’s order a “corrupt escalation” of a bid to “weaponize and politicize the nation’s intelligence and law enforcement entities” in a Friday statement.

“The potential selective release of material that implicates sources and methods will undermine the Intelligence Community’s efforts to gather intelligence, including on future attacks on our elections as well as other key intelligence targets, putting not only sources at risk, but the nation’s security along with them,” Schiff said.

Trump’s order marks the latest in a series of escalating steps he’s taken towards investigating the investigators. That strategy began as a narrative that Republicans deployed to counter the Mueller investigation, alleging “spying” by the Obama Administration on the Trump campaign.

But with Barr promising to take on the “spying” allegations himself, this appears to have mutated into a full-fledged probe of its own. The Attorney General said at a May 1 hearing before Congress that he “envision[s] some kind of reporting at the end of this.”

Sauce: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/dni-feels-need-to-express-confidence-in-barrs-secret-keeping-skills

Notable: Declas makes Mark Warner nervous.

Crooked Dem Senator Mark Warner Lashes Out at AG Bill Barr Following Trump’s Declassification Order

President Trump really sent the rats scurrying with his declassification order — every corrupt official involved in Spygate is panicking.

Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) lashed out at Trump and Attorney General Bill Barr on Friday following the President’s declassification order of Spygate documents.

The incredibly corrupt Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Panel accused Bill Barr of “selectively releasing information” in order to mislead the American people.

“We still don’t have the full Mueller report, so of course the President gives sweeping declassification powers to an Attorney General who has already shown that he has no problem selectively releasing information in order to mislead the American people,” Mark Warner said in a tweet Friday morning.

We still don’t have the full Mueller report, so of course the President gives sweeping declassification powers to an Attorney General who has already shown that he has no problem selectively releasing information in order to mislead the American people.

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) May 24, 2019

President Trump stunned the Deep State-media complex Thursday evening when he ordered declassification of the intelligence related to the spying on his presidential campaign in 2016.

President Trump on Thursday evening announced that at the recommendation of Attorney General Bill Barr, he has directed the Intel Community to quickly and fully cooperate with Barr’s investigation into surveillance activities.

The first batch of declassification documents are said to include the ‘bucket 5’ — FBI documents of recorded conversations exonerating Trump campaign officials George Papadopoulos and Carter Page prior to the FBI obtaining their first FISA warrant.

Mark Warner’s panel investigated so-called ‘Trump-Russia collusion’ for over two years so he knows there was no such conspiracy.

Trump’s declassification order will expose the truth which is why Warner, who tried to set up a secret backchannel to dossier author Christopher Steele is panicking.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/crooked-dem-senator-mark-warner-lashes-out-at-ag-bill-barr-following-trumps-declassification-order/

Notable: Ukrainian Deep State presents new President with a list of 'red lines'.

West-backed think tanks threaten new Ukrainian president with disturbing list of ‘RED LINES’

When President Volodymyr Zelensky won a landslide victory in the free and undisputed April elections, most accepted that he was given a fairly strong mandate to lead Ukraine. But it seems not everyone is so democratically-minded.

Particularly unmoved by the democratic process are a collection of Ukrainian 'civil society' groups, who have just issued a lengthy list of “red lines not to be crossed” by the new president, lest he risk provoking a new wave of political instability – that they would presumably instigate.

Issuing their catalog of demands on Thursday, the groups claim to be “politically neutral” but “deeply concerned” about the first actions taken by the comedian-turned-politician Zelensky, including his decision to appoint members of former President Viktor Yanukovych's government to positions within his own government.

A scan of the undersigned reveals that many of these “civil society groups” are anything but politically neutral. In fact, quite a few of them are partly funded by the US government, various EU governments (including the UK), the European Commission itself – and, of course, the omnipresent liberal billionaire George Soros.

Lhe list includes the notorious Euromaidan Press, Stop Fake and Ukrainian Crisis Media Center, to name just a few. In their heyday, many of these groups acted as propaganda tools of the Western-backed government of Petro Poroshenko, rather than the watchdogs they claim to be. They now confirm that a pesky election isn’t going to stand in the way of their agenda, reaffirming that their own “principles and positions” on issues remain unchanged and warning:

Should [Zelensky] cross these red lines, such actions will inevitably lead to political instability in our country…

This statement, which precedes the wide-ranging list of red lines, reads like a threat: Do what we say, or there will be trouble. Isn’t that a strange, almost dictatorial approach for groups purporting to be interested in "democracy," "freedom," and "dignity”? Did we all miss the part where a group of think tanks were collectively elected president of Ukraine?

https://www.rt.com/news/460210-ukraine-ngos-zelensky-red-lines/

Notable: >>6580560 DJT Tweet: Kek.

>>6580302

TYB

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132018969664139264

Notable: Planefag update: AF1 headed towards Alaska.

AF1 heading towards Alaska

fighter refuel kc now up.

suck it cabal , not this time faggots .

Notable: 245 marker.

245s on 5/24

Tom Cotton

Thank you, @realDonaldTrump! The Old Guard soldiers were honored to have you & @FLOTUS join them for Flags In, when they placed 245,000 flags in the cemetery. Read more about The Old Guard of Arlington in Sacred Duty!

https://twitter.com/TomCottonAR/status/1132003810707156992

US Navy

Flag 245

https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1131883041679450115

DJT Previous

On 245 occasions, former FBI Director James Comey told House investigators he didn’t know, didn’t recall, or couldn’t remember things when asked. Opened investigations on 4 Americans (not 2) - didn’t know who signed off and didn’t know Christopher Steele. All lies!

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1071760971088228352

Q245

Hussein is evil and a real loser.

No special treatment.

Shopping around for a (new) handler/protection is fun to watch on the SATs / spy comms.

Morons, all of them.

Q

Notable: Lokhova sues Halper for defamation.

STEFAN HALPER IS SUED BY CAMBRIDGE ACADEMIC LINKED TO MICHAEL FLYNN

*A Cambridge academic is suing FBI informant Stefan Halper and several major news organizations for defamation.

*Svetlana Lokhova is accusing Halper of planting false information about her brief interactions in 2014 with Michael Flynn during an event at Cambridge.

*Lokhova was the subject of several stories in 2017 that suggested she had improper contacts with Flynn. She believes that Halper, who has since been outed as an FBI informant who targeted the Trump campaign, planted the rumors about her in order to further the Trump-Russia collusion narrative.

A Russian-British academic is suing FBI informant Stefan Halper for defamation over what she claims is a conspiracy to smear her and former national security adviser Michael Flynn through the media, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday.

The academic, Svetlana Lokhova, is also suing several news organizations she accuses of publishing false information provided by Halper, a former Cambridge professor.

“Stefan Halper is a ratfucker and a spy,

who embroiled an innocent woman in a conspiracy to undo the 2016 Presidential election and topple the President of the United States of America,” Lokhova wrote in the lawsuit, which she filed in federal court in Virginia.

Lokhova asserts that Halper worked with the FBI and “political operatives” at Cambridge to seed stories about her interactions with Flynn at a dinner hosted at the storied British university on Feb. 28, 2014, when Flynn served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

The stories were planted, she claims, in order to “fuel and further the now debunked and dead narrative that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.”

She claims that Halper, who served in four Republican administrations, spread false allegations and insinuations in the press and at Cambridge that she was a Russian agent who had attempted to recruit Flynn at the dinner. Stories that appeared in the press beginning in 2017 hinted that she used sex to lure the retired lieutenant general.

The lawsuit does not provide direct evidence that Halper was behind news stories about Lokhova. But Lokhova pieces together clues in news reports that point to Halper’s role in raising questions about the 2014 dinner. She also claims that colleagues and reporters have told her that Halper has spread rumors about her.

https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/24/stefan-halper-michael-flynn-lokhova/

Notable: >>6580081 More detail on Microsoft's proposed election software.

Microsoft’s ElectionGuard a Trojan Horse for a Military-Industrial Takeover of US Elections

“The fact that we are handing over the keys of American democracy to the military-industrial complex — it’s like giving the keys to the henhouse to a fox and saying, ‘here come in and take whatever you want.’ It’s obviously dangerous.” — Investigative journalist Yasha Levine

Earlier this month, tech giant Microsoft announced its solution to “protect” American elections from interference, which it has named “ElectionGuard.” The election technology is already set to be adopted by half of voting machine manufacturers and some state governments for the 2020 general election. Though it has been heavily promoted by the mainstream media in recent weeks, none of those reports have disclosed that ElectionGuard has several glaring conflicts of interest that greatly undermine its claim aimed at protecting U.S. democracy.

In this investigation, MintPress will reveal how ElectionGuard was developed by companies with deep ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities and Israeli military intelligence, as well as the fact that it is far from clear that the technology would prevent foreign or domestic interference with, or the manipulation of, vote totals or other aspects of American election systems.

Election forensics analyst and author Jonathan Simon as well as investigative journalist Yasha Levine, who has written extensively on how the military has long sought to weaponize public technologies including the internet, were consulted for their views on ElectionGuard, its connections to the military-industrial complex and the implication of those connections for American democracy as part of this investigation.

In January, MintPress published an exposé that later went viral on a news-rating company known as Newsguard. Officially aimed at fighting “fake news,” the company’s many connections to U.S. intelligence, a top neoconservative think tank, and self-admitted government propagandists revealed its real intention was to promote corporate media over independent alternatives.

Newsguard was among the first initiatives that comprise Microsoft’s “Defending Democracy” program, a program that the tech giant created under the auspices of protecting American “democratic processes from cyber-enabled interference [which] have become a critical concern.” Through its partnership with Microsoft, Newsguard has been installed in public libraries and universities throughout the country, even while private-sector companies have continued to avoid adopting the problematic browser plug-in.

https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-electionguard-a-trojan-horse-for-a-military-industrial-takeover-of-us-elections/258732/

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Notable: Army to promote hundreds of PSYOP soldiers at Fort Bragg.

Army to Promote Hundreds of PSYOP Soldiers at Fort Bragg

The Army's 1st Special Forces Command is scheduled to promote 300 psychological operations sergeants at a record-breaking promotion ceremony May 31 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

"It will be the largest single promotion ceremony ever conducted for an Army Special Operations military occupational specialty," according to a recent news release from 1st Special Forces Command.

Maj. Gen. John Deedrick, commander of 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne), will preside over the ceremony, which will result in a redesign in the rank structure for PSYOP units within the command, the release states.

A recent review found that the current PSYOP rank authorizations were inadequate to account for soldiers with extensive training and education in influence theory, human dynamics, psychology, sociology, language, culture and politics, according to the release.

PSYOP noncommissioned officers are expected to operate successfully in austere environments and have a primary mission to persuade local populations to support U.S. military forces. They are expected to interact with U.S. ambassadors, senior country team members, and host-nation officials on a daily basis, the release states.

"That extensive investment in PSYOP soldiers, combined with the operating environments in which these soldiers perform and the importance and sensitivity of their missions, warranted an increase in rank," it adds.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/05/24/army-promote-hundreds-psyop-soldiers-fort-bragg.html

Notable: China takes over an insolvent bank.

For The First Time Ever, China Takes Over An Insolvent Bank

There was a time when in the years following the financial crisis, every Friday the FDIC would report of one or more small and not small banks failing, as their liabilities exceeded their assets, who were taken over by larger peers with a taxpayer subsidy to cover the shortfall. And while this weekly event, also known as "FDIC Failure Friday" has faded from the US for now, it has made a grand appearance in China.

China’s financial regulators said on Friday the country’s banking and insurance regulator and the central bank, will take control of the small, troubled inner Mongolia-based Baoshang Bank due to the serious credit risks it poses. The regulator’s control of Baoshang will last for a year starting on Friday, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) and China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (CBIRC) said on their websites.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-24/it-begins-first-time-ever-china-takes-over-insolvent-bank

Notable: >>6579857 USMC Tweet: Be safe this weekend. (video)

>>6579857 U.S. Marines @USMC

Whatever you drive…or ride this weekend, be safe!

https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1132000058105315329

(U.S. Marine Corps video by Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.)

12:07 PM - 24 May 2019

Notable: McKinsey tries to mitigate: opioid crisis.

After Helping OxyContin Maker 'Turbocharge' Sales, McKinsey Cuts Ties With Purdue Pharma

McKinsey's reputation has taken a beating over the past year, largely thanks to a flurry of New York Times' stories detailing the secretive consulting giant's work with authoritarian governments, while exposing conflicts of interest involving the firm's bankruptcy business and its internal hedge fund (the former led to a wrist-slap fine from the DoJ).

Unwilling to countenance another PR hit, McKinsey has apparently tried to head off more questions about the firm's commitment to ethical business practices by announcing that it has cut ties with Purdue Pharma and all other businesses involved in the sale of opioid pain pills.

The fact that McKinsey and other consulting firms haven't faced more of a backlash for their work with opioid makers is, frankly, surprising, as details from the Massachusetts AG's lawsuit against Purdue would suggest: During Mckinsey's decade-long relationship with Purdue, the consulting firm helped the OxyContin maker boost sales and circumvent government efforts to tighten restrictions.

According to Bloomberg, which quoted from the Massachusetts lawsuit, McKinsey even formulated a pitch that it said would help Purdue "turbocharge" sales.

But McKinsey isn't the only big firm cutting ties with Purdue this week. JP Morgan, which was among the banks that treid to 'limit' ties to gun-makers and sellers after the Parkland shooting, has told Purdue that it will need to do its banking somewhere else.

JPM's decision makes it "the most high-profile corporation known to have distanced itself from Purdue and its wealthy owners, the Sackler family," Reuters said. JPM reportedly informed Purdue back in March that it had six months to find another bank. It has reportedly tapped Dallas-based regional bank Comerica to handle its financial transactions. JPM reportedly told Purdue that its decision was motivated by 'reputational risks'. Though it never lent money to Purdue, JPM's commercial bank manged the company's cash and bill payments.

Many museums and nonprofits have already cut ties with the Sacklers, who were known for their philanthropy.

Unfortunately for Purdue (and maybe for McKinsey given its bankruptcy business), cultivating new banking relationships might not be a problem in the very near future: The company is reportedly considering filing for bankruptcy to avoid payouts in the roughly 2,000 lawsuits accusing it of misleading doctors and patients about the addictive qualities of OxyContin. The company and its owners, the Sackler family, have already reached a nearly $300 million settlement with the state of Oklahoma.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-24/after-helping-oxycontin-maker-turbocharge-sales-mckinsey-cuts-ties-purdue-pharma

Notable: POTUS memo: Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015

Memorandum on Delegation of Function under the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015, as Amended

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Issued on: May 24, 2019

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By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I hereby delegate to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the function vested in the President by section 102(d) of the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act of 2015 (Public Law 114–102), as amended by the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–272) (collectively, the “Acts”).

The function delegated by this memorandum shall be exercised in coordination with departments and agencies through the National Security Presidential Memorandum-4 process. Any reference in this memorandum to the Acts shall be deemed to be a reference to any future Act that is the same or substantially the same as such provision.